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_____ Thursday, July 4, 1867 __________
Rise about 2 P.M. and after breakfast talk over matters with the [[big wigs?]] with the Capt. Give our Indians their flour for the down trip. Skin a fine king fisher, put away & pack a lot of birds from the mountains in the Gens de Large Country N.E. of Ft Youkon perhaps 250 miles. They were collected by Mr Mc Dougall and mostly have their eggs with them. We shall probably go down in three large birch canoes and therefore I shall have to cut my luggage down, to the smallest compass. No powder for a salute.

______ Friday, July 5, 1867 ___________
Get my moccasins from Christy and pay her & Boucher.
Make up our minds to leave Sunday night. M'Dougall wants the Capt. to bring up M'Leod from below. The men at this fort are fed like the dogs, on dried moose meat all the year round, no flour a few pounds of tea when on the road & nothing else

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_____ Saturday July 6 _______________
Get the Indians at work mending up the bidarra with moose skin as we find the canoes will not take down our baggage. Get guns for [[Low?]] & Mikaiska, a knife for Bidarshik Kurill & Mikaishka a powder horn for the Bidarshik and a fine capote for the [[Nuklukahyet?]] man. In my own account get some soap [[resbiche?]] for snowshoes, & two moose skins which makes 3, I have got. Get all our things together for going down tomorrow evening. Heartily tired of a place where we can not pay for any thing in money, & have not the goods & where we can draw nothing from the store on account & feel generally like beggars, paying in promises.

________ Sunday July 7 _______________
Morning. Prayers & service by the minister in the large room. Afterwards send my moose skins to be smoked