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any paper is not to be wondered at. As Koliutcliin 

 Bay was somewhat in our track I concluded to look in 

 there in passing. 



Lest anybody coming after us should be perplexed 

 for want of proof of our having been at Serdze Kamen, 

 I made sure that the chief knew that he must exhibit 

 the letter which I wrote yesterday to any ship that 

 called in ; and, moreover, I gave him a sailor cap with 

 the ship's ribbon bearing the word " Jeannette " in 

 bright gold letters, of which the chief was so proud 

 that I knew he would exhibit it to all foreigners. Col- 

 lins wrote a notice of our visit on a piece of paper which 

 I signed, and it was pasted in this cap. 



All these things being done, and tobacco, tea, and 

 bread being presented (rum was asked for but declined) 

 to the chief and needles to the squaw, and some salmon 

 and deer meat being returned by them, we said good- 

 by, and at six a. m. got under way and steamed out. 

 At ten A. M. saw a baidera under sail standing for us 

 from still another collection of huts near the west cape 

 of this bay. Ran down to them, but as they could not 

 be understood by us, and evidently had not much to 

 say, we left them and proceeded on our way. Foggy 

 and misty from noon to midnight ; N. W. and N. winds. 



August ^Ist, Sunday. — During the night let the 

 ship run along west. At five a. m., having run off 

 enough distance to bring us on the meridian of the 

 eastern edge of Koliutchin Bay, sighted a point of land 

 bearing south true, and a low coast line extending east 

 and west. An extensive pack of old ice continuing to 

 about five miles from the land seemed to reach as far 

 as eye could see east and west, with a funnel-shaped 

 opening, the funnel point toward the land. Supposing 

 that such an opening would be caused by a river empty- 



