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circled: 1 Steamship California, On the Columbia, a few miles below Astoria, July 9th 1879. Dear friends three, Your
bottles letters, one from Louie one from the Doctor were received at Seattle two days ago, the whole sinking or raising me
more more irredeemably in debt. I am on my way to Alaska, will go as far as Sitka to obtain general views of the Coast as
much of the interior as good safe opportunities chance to offer. The California is a staunch little screw steamer smooth narrow
will no doubt roll plunge in a rough sea like a porpoise at play but I can not how rough the way that leads where I want to
go, as for storms I heartily enjoy them either on land or sea. I mean to stop over one trip so I will probably be in that
northland a month or two. After leaving Olympia at the head of Puget Sound we returned to Victoria sailed thence to New West
-minister on the Fraser River. Then took another steamer to Yale about a hundred miles up- the head of navigation. Spent one
day in the mountains there, returned to Victoria. Then sailed again for Seattle Tecoma. At the latter place took the Cars
for Kalama on the Columbia 105 miles then a steamer from Kalama for 5 o clock. The California Oregon were lying at in margin:
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