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at Cape Yorke - they told him 2 ships had been seen there - that there were plenty of officers & men.  Much butter & much bread - Ships go all to pieces - all die.
'Adam Beck speaks to Peterson, lie! - Peterson speaks Adam Beck, lie! Carl Peterson plenty lie - d-d lie!'
In three days ^ [[insertion]] Adam Beck [[/insertion]] spent $100. in [[Lively Bot?]] Two Bottles Brandy of Government ^ [[insertion]] Blacksmith [[/insertion]] [[strikethrough]] Brandy [[/strikethrough]] & paid $10.
Wages paid 3 £ per Moon. 700 Danish Dollars in all. - Need it up in 1 year.
From a prolonged conversation with Adam Beck in presence of Capt B. and Lans Kleijt an Esquimaux who can talk much more fluently the Eng. language than Adam B. I & Capt B are satisfied that he (Beck) told to Sir John Ross exactly what York Cape Esqu. told to him (B.) It seems Commander Phillips & Carl Peterson repeatedly told Beck that he was a liar & otherwise abused this now almost a wreck of a man! The treatment Adam 
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Kersfaviarsfok    The Esquimaux for "owl" 
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amarglat  Amarsset Esqu for the small fish the Esq Dry to eat 
ogag - pron. [[ink]] ōō [[/ink]] wock  Both signify same small fish -
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B. received from Sir John Ross is remembered kindly to this day. Poor Beck was the instrument of communicating fabrications of Cape York Esquimaux, & for this, English Historians have written him down as the author when it is not probable ^ [[insertion]] that he was [[/insertion]] taking all the circumstances into consideration.  [[strikethrough]] that [[/strikethrough]] The stigma cast upon him burns to his very heart's core to this day. Ever here ^ [[insertion]] his name is blackened by [[/insertion]] the public notoriety given him abroad as the man who fabricated falsehoods relative to the destruction of two ships near Cape Dudly Digges & the violent deaths of the officers & men supposed to refer to ^ [[insertion]] Sir [[/insertion]] John Franklin's Expedition.
Who ^ [[insertion]] of us [[/insertion]] that has done an act unworthy to be so generally condemned - could stand up against this tide? Not one in a thousand would do it! Adam Beck is of the 999 - He lives on the "don't care principle" - He has lost