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we anchoret! at 6.30 a. m. August 24. Koharri and a number of the 

 natives visited the ship. Captain Healy commended Mr. and Mrs. 

 Gambell to the good will of Koharri. They afterwards went ashore and 

 visited Koharri. 



At noon of August 24 we were again under way and stood for St. 

 Lawrence Island, where we came to anchor at 7.50 p. m. the same day. 

 Owing to the surf none of the natives were able to come off to the ship, 

 but the following day, the sea having gone down, large numbers visited 

 the vessel. Captain Warren and the Leary Brothers, who had spent 

 the winter at the whaling station on the island, were received on board 

 the ship. The lumber, provisions, and other supplies for the mission 

 were landed in the native boats. Mr. Gambell. the missionary, went 

 ashore to get the house ready for occupancy; to assist him Captain 

 Healy very kindly sent the ship's carpenter and a sailor; I also went 

 ashore, rendering what assistance I could. On the 29th the captain, 

 feeling it necessary to make another trip to Siberia, Mrs. Gambell was 

 kept on board while the carpenter with Mr. Gambell were left on shore 

 to get the house ready. At 8 o'clock the ship got under way for Bering 

 Straits and Arctic Siberia; at 5 o'clock on the morning of the 30th we 

 were again in the midst of floating ice; at 7.40 called at East Cape 

 village, and at 10.15 anchored off Whalen ; at 5 in the afternoon we took 

 on board three reindeer which had been secured at this place, and at 

 8.10 in the evening got under way and stood to the northwest up the 

 Siberian coast, finding considerable drift ice close in shore. 



We passed Enchowau and Killonrrun villages at 2 o'clock on the 

 morning of August 31, with increasing quantities of drift ice. Work, 

 ing slowly through the ice, we passed Tchupa village, and at 7 o'clock 

 rounded High Cape and hauled in for Cesang village, where we 

 stopped at 7.40 a. m. The ice being very heavy and thick, the ship did 

 not anchor, but kept working backward and forward, dodging the 

 heavy iee floes. At 9.50, finding that there were no deer to be had at 

 Cesang, the ship went ahead, working through the ice up to Killourrun 

 village, which we reached at 10 o'clock. Soon after I went ashore with 

 Lieutenant White after reindeer. On shore we found that it was gen- 

 eral slaughter day. On the beach were the tents of several canoe loads 

 of East Cape natives, who had come up to buy and kill reindeer for 

 their own use. In one place I counted 70 slaughtered deer, while a 

 mile away another band Mas beiug killed. The deer men were so busy 

 supplying the East Cape natives that we could secure no attention, 

 and at 2.15, the ice having become dangerous, we were recalled to the 

 ship, having secured but 2 deer. Soon after, the ice becoming lighter, 

 we again went ashore, and returned to the vessel with 14 animals. 

 The next day we secured 5 additional deer. 



On September 2, at 4 o'clock in the morning, we got under way and 

 started north, working through heavy drift ice, and at o'clock came 

 to anchor off Kerneeshgoun village. Upon going ashore we found that 



