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[[across double page]] Tuesday July/60 24th [[/across double page]]

After 4 O'Clock [[insertion]]this PM. [[/insertion]] nearly all hands went ashore to a "dance'.  Several natives being aboard.  I invited them down into the Cabin for the object of testing their Education.  In all the trials made by both male & female by old & young - by all - I found none but that could [[strikethrough]] be [[/strikethrough]] read - & read well. Nearly all the words of the Esquimaux language are much longer than those of the English Language - Many of them 3, 4 & in some cases containing 10 times more letters!  The following is one of the long words, but not the longest:
    
Piniagagssakardluarungnaerangat. [[penultimate 'a' has a circumflex accent]]

I was surprised to see the rapidity - the full clear enunciation of every syllable, with which [[strikethrough]] they [[/strikethrough]] they read. One little boy Esquimaux seemed to exceed all others in ability of reading - tho all done well.  I do not wish to depreciate [[strikethrough]] any [[/strikethrough]] the qualifications of any people yet truth requires me to say that I do not believe any [[strikethrough]] one [[/strikethrough]] boy or girl in the States or out of the States can read better than this boy to
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whom I refer! This boy is 10.
While some of the others were reading this boy would look over & carefully correct all errors.  It mattered not whether this books were right side up or not - all was the same to this boy.
As every thing done by these Greenlanders is with the expectation of receiving something in return, I gave to ^[[insertion]] each of [[/insertion]] the girls a string of beads & to ^[[insertion]] each [[/insertion]] the boys small piece of a Cigar. [[strikethrough]] The [[/strikethrough]] The men each received a Sea biscuit.  
A little before  IX O'Clock, two Pilots (Esquimos) who were aboard [[strikethrough]] pronounced [[/strikethrough]] went to Capt. B. & told him the wind had just shifted to the N.E. This was the wind we were in wait. [[strikethrough]] from. [[/strikethrough]] The National Flag was hoisted giving the signal to those of our people who [[insertion]] were [[/insertion]] ashore to come aboard & prepare for departure.  All was now excitement.  My letters were to be carried to the Governor's & some of these were to be completed = I was ^ insertion]]to bid him & others farewell. [[/insertion]] 
Gathering them into a bundle I stepped into a boat & we rowed quickly by an