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When at Cape [[strikekthrough]] Felix [[/strikethrough]] [[insert]] Maria [[Lousisee?]] [[/insert]] Ross said was 200 miles from ship - had started but with 21 days provision [[circled]] 417 [[/circled]] Abernathy & Ross left the party & went on one day S. Westward till midnight (29th-30th) when from a stranded map of ice about 40 feet high we saw a point of land being SW. about 15 miles distant [[insert]] [[?]] [[/insert]]. Bay [[insert]] [[Budhi?]] [[/insert]] occupied by very heavy packed ice. [[circled]] 418 [[/circled]]

30th of May Morning [[strikethrough]] [[turnt?]] [[/strikethrough]] turned away from Port Victory a single piece of Drift wood [[hare?]] & [[trees?]] grouse. Point Culgraft Arrived Point Culgraft
31 Morn [[insert]] [[strikethrough]] returned to [[/strikethrough]] Reached [[/insert]] Richardson Bay [[insert]] [[strikethrough]] [[& Port Perry]][[/strikethrough]] [[/insert]] crossed several lakes when travelling [[insert]] was [[/insert]] easy - Cut across in 1 day being consumed all  provisions but then in our store (Bay Richardson)

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Jun 1st Morn, "Port Perry:
      2 Morn   "  " Young - we found here many circles of stones marking the former Summer residences of the Esquimax. [[circled]] 420 [[/circled]]
June 3 Cape Sabrina Cape Aberthney next shore opposite Matty SSd
" [[June]] 4  travelled 9 miles - 80 miles from the vessel - [[insert]] Point [[/insert]] Smith [[strikethrough]] Bay [[/strikethrough]]
" [[June]] 5th steered direct to Nei-tyel-le
June 5th - Left Point Smith to Sni [[?]][[insert]] Sue [[/insert]] [[strikethrough]] Morn [[/strikethrough]]
Arrived at inlets 7 in the Morn by wh. found 3 snow-huts which had been occupied in the proceeding winter by the family of Kun-ny-yohe whose route toward the ship by the Stanley river could be traced for a certain distance by the marks of the sledges. The number of the traces of the Esq found about here

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