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Frobisher Strait to find Winter Quarters for the vessels & then to go ahead & whale all [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] ^[[insertion]] he[[/insertion]] can this fall.
I regret our late arrival here.  It is now decided that the Rescue cannot go into Fox Channel or Republic Bay this year!  All is for the best.  
Among the arrivals to-day is Cudlargo's idol - a pretty little Esquimaux girl of 11 years of age.  She looked sad when I 1st saw her from the loss of her dear father.  How her eyes sparkled this afternoon as Capt. B took out the varied things which her father had carefully gathered for her.
"Kim-mi-Loo" (for this is the little girl's name) has just been Americanized.  Capt Buddington's good wife had made & sent to Kim-mi-loo a pretty red dress a neck-tie mittins - belt etc.
Mr. Rogers & I, at a suggestion from me thought to best to commence the change of nationality with soap & water!
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The process was slow -that of arriving to ^[[insertion]] this [[/insertion]] beautiful little girl [[strikethrough]] that [[/strikethrough]] whom [[strikethrough]] see [[/strikethrough]] we at length [[insertion]] [[strikethrough]] hd [[/strikethrough]] [[/insertion]] found ^[[insertion]] though[[/insertion]] deeply embedded, layer after layer [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]]^[[insertion]] in[[//insertion]] dirt
Then came the process making up her toilet.  With [[underlined]] a very coarse comb [[/underlined]] I commenced to disentangle her hair.  She has but little that is long, the back part of her head from behind her ears having [[strikethrough]] but [[/strikethrough]] ^[[insertion]] been [[/insertion]] cut short off an a/c of bad pains in her head.
How patiently she submitted to worse than the curry-comb process I had to use.  This was the 1st time of her life that a comb had been put to her head.  Her hair was filled with moss, seal [[strikethrough]] skin [[/strikethrough]] & Rein deer hairs & ________  ma^[n]y other things, too numerous to call them all by name!  Poor thing & yet she is fat & beautiful - the very picture of health!  Her cheeks are red as the blown rose. Natures vermillion is upon them.  A full hour was I before getting that child's hair so that I could draw ^[[insertion]][[strikethrough]] a [[/strikethrough]] [[/insertion]] coarse end of a [[strikethrough]] comb [[/strikethrough]]

Transcription Notes:
Cudlargo was an Eskimo that worked on 'George henry' but died and was buried at sea. a/c = account