FROM SAN FRAXCISCO TO ST. LAWRENCE BAY. 



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burned in going over, we should be better off than if 

 we left it behind at St. Michael's. Hence I stopped 

 receiving coal and provisions and got ready for sea, and 

 last evening at seven o'clock we steamed out of St. 

 Michael's, and are now on our way to St. Lawrence 

 Bay. I ordered the schooner to follow us, and she was 

 to leave this morning, and no doubt will arrive quite 

 as soon as ourselves, for she is light and we are very 

 deep. The sea is as smooth as glass, however, and we 

 are going along very nicely. The distance is only three 

 hundred miles, and I expect to make the run in two 

 and a half days. 



St. Lawrence Bay, Siberia, August 25, 1879. 



When I had got as far as saying that we expected to 

 make our run in two and a half days I stopped writ- 



Tattooing. St. Lawrence Bay. 



ing for the night, expecting to make a day of it on the 

 23d for letter-writing. When I got up on the morn- 

 ing of the 23d it was to find an unsettled look in the 



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