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Thursday, September 3
We passed Shihaldon Volcanos
between 6 & 7 vehicles.
Then we went past Staten and
then between Deer Island and
Thin Point. Then between Dalgoi
and Ki-marland. We passed
Parley Volcanos about noon and
saw a party of Bay had it in
right nearly, and the afternoon
There were few birds in the water.
The day was mostly clear and
arched a fine view of Parley,
a considerable quantity of plank
to coming from it. For
several minutes yet, a
quail, of clouds they are it
[illegible] [illegible] Zupudini 6 years [illegible]
Captain Dodge tells me that
there are hundreds of Sea Gulls on
Lightstone Rocks, and many
on Palomni Rock in Lennak
Ross. Many on Boggsland and
on Byrdler Island seen land it's
on Seaton Rocks near Amak In.
Friday Sept. 4.
We passed the Semidi Islands,
on some of which are blue
frosts abhorred from St.
George. Early in the afternoon
some drizzle day.
Passed Christo Island
at 3 P.M. It is stocked
with blue frosts also from
St George. A man stays
here during the entire year
and in the winters second
stay to trap the animals.
Some many glorious-winged
pilots, a few albatrosses
and puffins.
Fulmars were common,
smaller the gannish ones, but
a few spots and a few
nearby land white Albatross
St George.