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S.S.M. that I could scarcely make out anything. The interpreter talking relevant made himself readily understood.  After breakfast the Capt. had a lot of ammunition, tobacco, drill, Colied and small articles such as knives + C. taken unto the pilot house and the natives were told to bring in their deerskins and then followed about six hours of trading during which over a hundred deerskins beside some finished parkies, wolf skins, Black bear skins and some arctic hare, some large iron gray mamot or "whistler" skins were brought.  The deerskins were mainly fall and winter skins and several lent or lodgecovering containing 6 winter skins each were brought about 4.30 pm.

After all the trading was ended the Capt. gave me the cutter with his interpreter + a crew of six men and I went in to the settlement through the very rough sea running in upon the shore. There had been a heavy westerly wind all day and when I went in I feared the surf would prevent my landing for when we shoved off the shore which came up near us about noon - was pitching so half her bottom showed at intervals.

However as we neared the shore a sandbar a couple of hundred yds off shore made the waves break there thus leaving comparatively smooth water in shore and I landed without difficulty and was alone surrounded by from two to three hundred natives smiling good naturedly and shouting a string of unintelligible words to me or to each other and crowding