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quick one, for she will run down in about eleven days, 

 and you ought to have my letters in five days after- 

 wards. 



My only reason for stopping at St. Paul's Island was 

 to get some seal skins and leave a mail for the Alaska 

 Fur Company. But I find I can get all the furs I want 

 here, and the St. Paul has brought down all the agents 

 of the Compauy, and so I deliver the mail here. I am 



very glad it is so, because now I can go direct to St. 

 Michael's, which place I hope to reach on the 13th, and 

 leave on the 16 th. 



Everybody describes the season as an exceptionally 

 open one. The revenue cutter, which has just come 

 south, was as far north as East Cape, and saw no ice 

 anywhere. She did not stop at East Cape or anywhere 

 on the Siberian side, her highest point of call being St. 

 Michael's. At that place everybody was looking anx- 

 iously for us, our dogs, sleds, and fur clothing being 

 all ready. The schooner had not yet arrived. 



