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2 a complete success and have just reached here from our first trip to the chil illegible surrounding country and are very
much pleased with what we saw. We will leave here in a couple of days to establish our first trading post at Hoochinoo? ,
our next will be established at Chilcat? inside of sixty days others will follow. We were well received by all the Indians
who are pleased with our establishing posts in their several counties. We are provided with a customs officer so that we can
overhaul seize foreign expeditions, several had been around previous to our arrival in the waters? . Twenty one miners have
already gone into the chilcat? this month a missionary has been appointed for that county. About twenty men are mining at
Sehuck? . 00923