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If you are having a bad day consider this.

We left Dawson on July 26, on the the steamer P. B. Weare. At midnight on the 27th the steamer ran on a bar below Circle City.

After waiting seven days we were transferred to the steamer Healy, and arrived at St. Michaels on August 25.

On the next day we took the Excelsior for San Francisco. on the morning of 27, the Excelsior went aground in ten feet of water in Behring sea, twenty miles from land. The passengers moved twenty tons of coal from her hold . To lighten her, and at midnight she floated, having broken two wings of her propeller.

She reached Ounalaska on September 1. On the 2d they tried to beach her, and on the 3d succeeded. On the 4th they took off her propeller, and on the 5th put on a new one. On…