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1860
Monday 
August 27 
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of various interesting points, they had a grand smoke & [[strikethrough]] card[[guess]] [[/strikethrough]] council! Really they were as happy little creatures as could found on the Earth!
"Hall's Island", discovered in 1576, bears S.E. (true) allowing 60[[degree symbol]] [[insertion]] Westerly [[/insertion]] variation [[strikethrough]] for the variation [[/strikethrough]]. Channel (apparent) Bet. Hall Island & "Locke" Island. 40[[degree symbol]] Easterly (from S.) true. Head of Neu-gum-mi-uke Bay N.W. by W. (true)
A noble looking mountain that I never saw on a chart or map bears E.S.E. 1/2 E. an say [[insertion]] S. [[/insertion]] 76[[degree symbol]] (E.[[strikethrough]] asterly [[/strikethrough]]) true.
It has this appearance:
[[image - drawing of mountain]]
(S. 76[[degree symbol]] E.) 
(Vide[[guess]] Apr 12th 1861)
Inuit name of this Island: Oo-mi-en-wa Hall
Another Island of larger extent] is to be seen still [[insertion]] farther to [[/insertion]] the North & East of the one I here sketch. Many of the present Whalers call the one of larger extent "North-Foreland". I think they are wrong in doing so  North Foreland is 8.5. extremity of Hall Island North of the entrance to Frobisher Strait.
Before I leave Neu Gummiooke I hope to sketch a general view of the land extending from Hall Island to N. Westerly extremity of the Bay we are in. This sketch I shall make from the top of the mountain I visited to-day.
From this mountain I saw the vomiak & Ky-aks [[insertion]] [[?]] the parties [[insertion]] we had heard [[come?]] [[/insertion]] on their way to [[strikethrough]] our [[/strikethrough]] harbor [[/insertion]] crossing the Bay in a direction of the George Henry. The oo-mi-ak seemed to contain a score & a half of human beings. I found on getting home that the contents of said Boat were 28 Esquimaux, beside dogs, venison, Walrus-heads with tusks, etc. etc.
To-day quite a number of Walrus Heads were purchased [[insertion]] by the "George Henry" [[/insertion]] for the object of the tusks which are firmly imbedded at one end in them. One pair of tusks measured full 26 inches in length. The skull of the Walrus is very firm & thick. No rifle Ball would have the least effect on it. I have specimen pieces that will corroborate what I say of this. A beautiful rain-bow (Esq. Sha-kony) just before the Sun-set. The brightest colors (7 primary) that I ever saw. [[strikethrough]] This [[/strikethrough]] The contrast was of a remarkable character - So beautiful an Arch resting