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Manning 6 June 1900
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04-08hrs
Received news that Small Pox is prevalent in Nome and no vessel from there be allowed to communicate with shore until permitted by Surgeon of this vessel.

Sounds a bit like the current COVID-19 embargo.

Manning 26 June
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8pm
Threw over 4 bottle papers.

?????? why ?????

http://sites.kpc.alaska.edu/jhaighalaskahistory/coda-disease-and-death-among-alaska-natives/ wrote:1900 Smallpox introduced in Nome from a ship, did not spread widely (Fortuine 1992, 178)

http://www.akhistorycourse.org/americas ... -medicine/


Most likely to track ocean currents..
https://blog.adkinshistory.com/bottle-papers/

Thanks.
They were a very interesting read to start my day.

Manning 1900 30 Aug.

1000 Stood for an object floating high on water.
1030 Stopped to expend 2 AP shells 6 pdr at dead whale in order to sink it.
1035 Ahead SWxW

(Nice to see them keeping the seas clean.)

Manning 1909 June 17th.

0640 Slowed down to allow men to get breakfast and get ready for docking.

[How considerate]

(0835 Made fast Unalaska.)

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This is the longest sentence I have seen. (I cannot read the Division or Month it ends on. )
5PM
Received order of District Court for this Territory of Alaska, (June 7, 1910) appointing Captain G.L. Carden, USRCS, Commanding US Revenue Cutter Manning to be US Commissioner on the waters and Islands of the Bering Sea within the Third Judieial Division of the Territory of Alaska for the season commencing on the 8th day of June, 1910, and ending unless sooner removed by an order of this court on the 3 ?? 1910.

TIA

Judicial
31st
?

Looks like "on Dec 31st 1910" to me, so until the end of the year.

Definitely. I should have looked closer!

Thanks.
They stand out when someone points it out.

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Comment in log at 1530.
Accidently blew five inches off right hand barrel of Parker shotgun.

No comment about what/who the gun was pointed at at the time.

Wonder how they managed to do that...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Bros.

Barrel was blocked, and thus exploded when they tried to fire it?

The logkeeper on Jamestown has coined a new word. His midnight entry finishes 'light airs from the north and nausable odors from the shore'

He's just anchored in Naples and hoisted the quarantine flag.
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He repeats the use next day. My transcriber rendered it 'moderate odors from the shore'
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/ ... _170_1.jpg

I did google the word with no usable hits.

I found several occurrences of "nauseable" being used, but never from a dictionary.

Entering the hotel there was a nauseable smell . The smell was present the three days of our stay. We had rooms in the Inn , large living but small and old ...

Rose - Raspberry Melvita perfume - a fragrance for women
Airy and feminine, yet sweet, without beeing nauseable, but fresh.

I wonder why one of the dictionaries which looks for new & novel words hasn't picked it up? It sounds as if the examples you have found come from the same side of the pond as Jamestown but obviously the history goes back a long way. Talking about language divergence, spelling in Jamestown's log is interesting. We have liquor but centre and harbour for example. I've used the log spellings even when they are GB rather than US much to the exasperation of WORD which marks them all.

In Pittsburgh one of the main streets is Centre Avenue

Checked in my 2 vol Shorter Oxford Dictionary - nausable not there. Not paying £90 per year for access to the full OED online which includes the historical data and a thesaurus. The local reference libraries which might have a full paper OED are shut for Covid. Ah well, people who like words will decode it. It does have the advantage of fewer letters than nauseating and sickly has different connotations.