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to the Bear with a quantity of reindeer trade goods that had been left 

 at the station last fall. 



At 7.30 p. m. the Bear got under way and steamed over to a water- 

 ing place on the south side of the bay. 



July 6, having secured 4,275 gallons of fresh water, at 1.15 p. m. the 

 Bear returned to Cape Spencer, coming to anchor at 3.05 p. m. 



July 7, 8, and 9 were spent in coaling ship. 



On the evening of July 9, Captain Weeks, Sherman, and Porter, and 

 myself, Lieutenant Dodge being in charge, went with the steam launch 

 to the reindeer station after the herders that were to be returned to 

 Siberia. When two thirds of the way over we met Mr. Lopp and the 

 herders coming to the ship; taking them in tow of the launch we 

 returned to the station, where the herders were paid off. 



Keturning to the ship about 11 o'clock p. m., Mr; Lopp and I went to 

 the pilot house of the Bear and discussed plans until 2 o'clock in the 

 morning. 



July 10 letters were sent on board the J. D. Peters, to be taken down 

 to Unalaska, and the Bear got under way for Ahkahahnee, Siberia, to 

 return Enker and Eanken, together with Kimok, Peter, and Nowatat, 

 deermen. I spent the afternoon in reading papers (two months old) 

 just received. 



July 11, 4.34 a. m., we dropped anchor off Ahkahahnee, South Head, 

 where the herders and visitors were landed. The deer men having 

 asked for some barter goods to trade for reindeer during the winter and 

 have them ready to deliver to the Bear in the summer of 1395, were 

 supplied. 



There being every appearance of a storm outside, at 11.30 a. m. we 

 got under way and went around to Lutke Harbor, St. Lawrence Bay, 

 where we dropped anchor at 2.20 p. m. The captain and nearly all the 

 officers went duck hunting. The officers brought back 44 ducks, the 

 captain 25. This is the harbor where the U. S. S. Rogers, while in 

 winter quarters, burned to the waters edge. The crew after suffering 

 many hardships were rescued the following spring by Capt. M. A. 

 Healy, on the U. S. E. M. S. Gorwin. 



At 7.40 a. m., July 12, came to anchorage off East Cape Village. 

 An Umiak load of natives from Lutke Harbor left the ship and went 

 to the village. At 8 o'clock a. m. we got under way and steamed into 

 the bight to the southwest of the cape, and at 9.30 a. m. came to anchor 

 near a native settlement. The steam whaler Belvidere was also at 

 anchor at same place. 



Captain Healy concluded to send Lieutenant White and Seaman 

 Edwards along the Arctic Siberian coast to visit the deermen and pur- 

 chase reindeer in advance of the arrival of the ship. An Umiak was 

 secured of Tom Cod and the following natives hired for a trip of from 

 six to eight weeks: Tom Cod, leader, 2 sacks of flour and knife; 

 Claturnan, Claturuan's wife, Kolurigan, Emyia, Tetluk, Amoia, Atukea, 

 each 1 sack of flour and knife. 



