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the station considerably. He was turned out and forbidden to enter 

 that house anymore. The Brevigs visited the Kjellmanns in the even- 

 ing. Thermometer, +10° to +21°. 



December 27, 1894. — Wind continued all night; cloudy, and some 

 sleet in the evening from the southeast; +20° to 28°. 



December 28, 1891. — Strong northeast wind, cloudy, mild, snowing 

 in the evening; +21° to +30°. 



December 30, 1894. — Calm and clear, very tine day. Sunday school. 

 The sun set at 3.04 p. m. Sekeoglook had his hand scalded by 

 hot tea. 



December 31, 1894. — Clear, calm, tine day. Sun rose at 11.30 a. m. 

 and set at 3.09 p. m. The Nook people received a present of Hour and 

 biscuit to-day. Late last night Mrs. Kjellmanu found a pair of mittens 

 that Thorwald Kjellmann lost last fall, by being stolen from him, in 

 the possession of Isah genua. He said he had gotten them from his 

 brother Charley. Moses left toward evening for Charley's brother's 

 place to get dogs to go to Cape Prince of Wales to the dance. Ther- 

 mometer, +2° to +4°. 



January 1, 1895. — Calm, clear, bright; — 2° to +10°. Service for the 

 Lapps. In the afternoon I had iive patients, Mrs. Wocksock, Sekeoglook, 

 a boy from Nook covered with sores from the waist down, and a woman 

 from town with a rebellious tooth, which was extracted. Thorwald 

 Kjellmann celebrated his sixty-eighth birthday to-day. 



January 2, 1895. — Bright and calm ; —4° to +2°. School commenced 

 after Christmas, and 29 showed up bright and early to get the biscuit. 

 Two sleds arrived from the lakes for the dance. 



January 3, 1895. — Light northeast wind, clear and bright; sunset 

 3.31p.m.; -6° to +4°. 



January 4, 1895. — Calm, foggy; +9° to +16°. Sleds are arriving all 

 day, and more are exj)ected. When all have arrived they will leave in 

 a body. 



January 5, 1895. — Clear, bright, calm; —5° to +8°. Three sleds ar- 

 rived toward evening, making the number complete. They will leave 

 early to-morrow. Mrs. Kjellmann and Brevig had a trip behind rein- 

 deer to-day, and enjoyed it. 



January 6, 1895. — Mild, calm, foggy. The " carnivalites " left at early 

 dawn, 9.30 a. m. Johann Tornensis's body was buried to-day and a 

 burial place dedicated on the east side of the little creek east of the 

 station house. Little before dark Kjellmann and wife, Mikkel, and 

 myself went out for a drive with the deer and steered for Nook, 

 where I saw a patient that, from descriptions of his ailment, I had 

 been treating for bleeding from the lungs, and found him suffering 

 from acute rheumatism and swelled joints. Arrived at the station at 

 7 p. m. Thermometer, —2° to -+-8°. 



January 7, 1895. — Calm and clear; —11° to —2°. In the afternoon 

 Kjellmann, Nakkila, and Wocksock left for the upper lakes to get birch 

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