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2 the dock, both to sail at 3. underlined: A M next morning. Magee took the one for his wife-home- -business I the other
for trees- ice etc. The Overland expedition is therefore definitely postponed for at least a year. The way for all I could
learn was clear enough, but I would not choose to undertake it alone. Lieutenant Hooper commanding the steamship Wo illegible
invited me to go to Alaska with him in the Reven illegible Cutter lying at Port Townsend. I would have a good time with him,
but as he did not know within a month or two when his sailing orders would arrive I concluded to go less comfortably at greater
expense on this black porpoise. We will touch at Victoria other ports - thus it will appear that I will have visited this
British City four times besides sailing the whole length of Puget Sound three times, up down a hundred miles of the Fraser
Columbia rivers. So much I have seen of water shore, forests mountain it seems incredible to me that the Almanac time since
leaving San Francisco should be less than three weeks. Sheldon Jackson the missionary commissionary man who lectured in Yosemite
on Alaska will go with us. We have only about a dozen passengers aboard as yet, but will pick up more at Victoria, port Townsend.
On my return I hope to make some good excursions into the woods up some of the snowy Cones in W. T. Oregon. The owner of the
mills at Burrard Inlet