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He has 28 men among whom is an excellent Violinest, a fifer ^[[insertion]] Tambourinest [[/insertion]] & Drummer. This is capital - during the long winter dispelling despondency - cheering the hearts of all! This P.M. visited the "Rescue' - Saw the natives aboard - ^[[insertion]] Polar [[/insertion]] [[underlined]] Bear skins & meat [[/underlined]]- Rein deer meat & Salmon trout. With Sterry Gardiner & Lamb went ashore ^[[insertion]] The snow balling of I & Sterry! [[/insertion]] Met natives in their ^[[insertion]] skin [[/insertion]] tents - ^[[insertion]] saw [[/insertion]] Nearby the skeleton of an Esq. woman ^[[Insertion]] just as [[/insertion]] [[strikethrough]] who [[/strikethrough]] died some three years ago! She was sick - left to take care of herself - There were the remains of the tent - skin - bedding - stone lamp her utensils all beside the remains. This inattention to the [[underlined]] sick & dead [[/underlined]] is a blot upon the otherwise noble people. The honesty of the Esquimaux is seen in this - on the shore were. myself ^[[insertion]] & Coal [[/insertion]] - 4 tubs whale line, tar; oil [strikethrough]] hogsheads[[/strikethrough]] - casks - minciny machine, coils of rope trying kettles, harpoons lances all left here last Fall - Now all safe as in safe! 5 1/2 O'Clock this P.M. Cudlargo's wife comes into the Cabin with Capt B. up the inlet where the Rescue got the Natives (including Uget & Cudlargo's wife) She heard the death of "John; She takes his death sorrowfully - tearfully . She is now before me - bathed in sad tears. Tears flow faster & faster as Capt B opens "John" Chest & exhibits the treasures he ^[[insertion]] John [[/insertion]] had gathered in the States for his little girl & for her. Uget stands by [[strikethrough]] three letters? [[/strikethrough]] John's widow's son. The daughter is expected to-morrow - Capt B [[?]] up the dressed Doll which was sent to the daughter by the little girls of Capt. B. The interest the widow takes in this & other Trinkets - 9 O'Clk eve - All retired The widow has just come down into the cabin [[strikethrough]] & h [[/strikethrough]] She is now gone She seated herself upon John's Chest that now awaits the arrival of A-Kem-mer-lo - & pensively bent her head in sorrow while then her son came in & she soon left. [[end page]] [[start page]] Thursday, Aug 9th 1860 This morning ^[[insertion]] we [[/insertion]] have been visited by the natives who are now flocking in from all directions The "Rescue" with Capt. B. left for [[blank space for later word insertion]] This afternoon went ashore with the dogs where they are to remain till we go ^[[insertion]] to an Inlet South of this. [[/insertion]] [[strikethrough]] South [[/strikethrough]]. Sterry visited the tents 3 in number with me. Met John's ^[[insertion]] Cudlargo's [[/insertion]] widow. The Balmoral petticoat! Enquiry for more! Cudlargo's son ^[[insertion] to [[/insertion]] accompany me up the mountains. The widow, Cudlargo's, by & by would like a husband. Capt. Allen & me ashore. Boiling tar. My travelling bay ^[[insertion]] (Lieut Gov's gift [[/insertion]] containing my instruments & Portfolio lay down upon the rocks in perfect confidence that they are safe while I & Sterry call in the tents. Return not a thing touched! ^[[insertion]] Ascent the mountains - [[/insertion]] [[strikethrough]] The White [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined] The Crimson Snow![[/underlined]] Beautiful snow balls of it. The Dogs sight me away up the mountains. They come! They come! The Gree[[? ink blot]] no! the Esquimaux dogs - My dogs! How they enjoy the excursion. Bright lovely day - Snow Banks poor creatures, how they like once more to bury their shaggy, [[strikethrough]] bo [/strikethrough]] panting bodies beneath the [[end page]]
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Sterry, Cudlargo, - name checked
