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[[margin]] 1860 Wednesday Oct 10th [[/margin]] 

napping such times as this, Ill [[strikethrough]] beg [[/strikethrough]] bet ye! If ther's any smash up going on to-night, on board this one craft, Im for digging for that one Island', pointing to the one where [[insertion]] were already [[/insertion]] 2 vessels & 2 Boats [[strikethrough]] were [[/strikethrough]] apparently [[insertion]] completely [[/insertion]] wrecked! continued "Spikes". 'I'd give a dollar for a little fair weather [[insertion]] just now [[/insertion[]] (at that moment blowing a perfect hurricane) [[strikethrough]] just now [[/strikethrough]] that I might turn in - no sleep for 2 nights,  Ill bet [[strikethrough]] yet [[/strikethrough]] ye!' coming down to the present gale - "Spikes" declaration of the 'good timber in that little chain' satisfied me that the "George Henry" was all right! 
These gales being [[underlined]] rest [[/underlined]] & [[underlined]] recreation [[/underlined]] to the men of the G.H. They really like it. Who can wonder? for, day after day, they toil, enduring hardships that none but whalers can appreciate! They have no [[underlined]] rest-days [[/underlined]] in Whaling season, [[strikethrough]] but [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] save [[/insertion]] gale & storm days! A furious gale now prevails! This morning the scene within the main cabin was one worthy a picture! As I pencilled it down [[insertion]] at the time [[/insertion]] so I now write it: 'There is Smith & the Esquimaux lady, "Buckeye", a great favorite with us all, seated on Smith's Sea-chest facing the dinning table, both industriously sewing on Smith's "Jumper". Smith sits up, American fashion, feet to the floor, while Nuk-er-tou, "Buckeye", sits [[underlined]] Esquimaux [[/underlined]] fashion! on her [[insertion]] crossed [[/insertion]] legs! A lamp is burning before them, setting up, not exactly on a bushel, but on an invested, White [[quast?]] [[liss?]] open before them. Sterry's Birth is directly behind them & in it [[strikethrough]] he [[/strikethrough]] Sterry sits hissing, tonguing & fingering on a [[Jewsharp?]] which he [[insertion]] really [[/insertion]] plays [[underlined]] artistically [[/underlined]]. His doorway is filled with a crowd of [[insertion]] charmed [[/insertion]] Esquimaux. Mate Lamb is leaning over on the table absorbed in reading the last [[insertion]] work [[/insertion]] of Dr Kane, which, by the by, is what I brought with me & is in constant requisition among the [[?]] & men. Gardiner is on Lamb's sinister side, also reading. A company of Esquimaux are playing "Dominos" on a Sea-chest, at one side Capt B. [[insertion]] seated on his cabin steps [[/insertion]] is pulling among [[insertion]] at a little [[?]] extending to [[/insertion]] a little Board of tobacco about 2 1/2 [[insertion]] inches [[/insertion]] from nasal-bridge, sending forth clouds that [[insertion]] do [[/insertion]] go upward! Rogers is seated, not far off, tormenting a pretty Esquimaux girl of his own size & height - short & dumpy! 

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This P.M. Nukertou ("Buckeye") Washing my, on the Capt's & my Cabin - Instead of "rolling up sleeves" - she drew her arm deliberately from her skin "coat" & with it & right breast [[strikethrough]] bare [[/strikethrough]] bear, she proceeded scrubbing wh. she done in a most admirable manner so that the floor reflects [[strikethrough]] every [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] the [[?]] [[/insertion]] grain of the wood. "Buckeye" is a [[underlined]] real Worker [[/underlined]] of pleasant ways & disposition. She is washing, sewing, "chewing", - doing something [[underlined]] useful [[/underlined]] all the time [[insertion]] for the officers & men [[/insertion]] I have never seen her idle yet. It is all the same to her whether she receives any compensation or not. She is a smart, intelligent, noble Esquimaux to whom every lover of the [[underlined]] good & true [[/underlined]] would feel to respect & love.
9 1/2 o'clock eve. The gale yet prevailing. It has continued without [[insertion]] any [[/insertion]] cessation through the day. Barometer descending. Since Eve of 7th when it stood 29.296 it has fallen to 29.125 making 0.837 in 72 hours! Many natives weather bound aboard!