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overhanging my head were [[strikethrough]] Rocks [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] pinnacled mountains [[/insertion]] 1000 feet [[insertion]] above me [[/insertion]] [[strikethrough]] high [[/strikethrough]]. Far as the eye could see they extended. On my still bended Knees, I thanked God that I lived to behold his manifold & wonderful was [[insertion]] the world's [[/insertion]] His Creation! None but God & that untutored Esquimaux saw me there ^[[insertion]] amid [[/insertion]] [[strikethrough]] Mid [[/strikethrough]]the roar of that mountain Water-fall offering up ^[[insertion]] this [[/insertion]] my heart's prayer! The Geological Specimens - the Gold of Frobisher an The two Butter-Cups - Read in the Excelsior! The report by the side of the 2d lakelet. Each day a Caperlin I & my Esquimaux each a Sea-biscuit & slice of pork. The Good Book says: 'The [[strikethrough]] hungry [[/strikethrough]] full soul loatheth a honey-comb; but to the hungry soul every bitten thing is sweet'. My cure was I had a good appetite, Sea-biscuit (a bitter thing usually to me). & ^[[insertion]] Cincinnati [[/insertion]] pork sent 1st rate! The dogs finally went to sleep poor tired dogs! By the by never allow dogs with ^[[insertion]] you[[/insertion]] up Rocky [[end page]] [[start page]] Mountains! For several reasons - [[underlined]]I would not dare to tell them all! [[/underlined]] But this much I will say my Esquimaux [[insertion]] dogs [[/insertion]] came near proving the cause of my destruction. In two instances - one in going up & one in coming down. They set large stones agoing which came thundering down past & over my very head! Loss of my specimens. The descent. The slide of 1/4 of a mile on ^[[insertion]] a [[/insertion]] snow [[strikethrough]] struck [[/strikethrough]] bank declining angle of 50 degrees. The piles of Rocks that have been thrown from the mountains. The 2 Vallies of Rocks clean as freshly broken. No use to carry hammers & chisels to obtain fresh specimens. Each Season gives fresh ones! Found the Widow ^[[insertion mark]] John's wife [[/insertion]] weeping alone among the Rocks. Her son kindly greets her. Arrives to the tents - Black Eagle's Boat Crew on shore! Am greeted by a score of Esquimaux. The Dingy coming ^[[insertion]] after me [[/insertion]] from the George Henry. The 2 boys wish to visit the bones of the Esquimaux. I take
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(an earlier page mentions the bones of an Eskimo left untouched after death)