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[[margin]] 1860 October 18 Thursday [[/margin]] A good subject for a picture indeed. As I pulled the after our at No. 8 [[Kokeryabin?]] [[underlined]] standing [[/underlined]] (?) behind it on her knees facing me assisted [[underlined]] mournfully [[/underlined]] (?) in rowing. The Sun was shining form the S.E. at a very low altitude, yet brightly. The oars on the [[underlined]] star [[/underlined]]board side [[?]] were each tipped in rainbow colors as they flew out of the [[?]] waters! Strong and quick were the pulls on those 5 oars. The spirits of all were like the waters on which our beautiful craft was gliding - dancing gleesomly. The mountains on either side looked gravely down upon my huffy band - There 1/2 miles ahead were the 2 vessels, the Steamer & the slup. We passed the Steamer at our right as the main object was to see Capt John Parker, Sr. A few strokes brought us alongside the "[[Tree love?]]" up whose side we lifted 200 lbs, flesh & bones, as quick as nimble hands & feet would allow. Capt. Parker welcomed me aboard as a genuine Son of the noble land of his birth would welcome a stranger with warm heart & cordial hand. Blind George the Esquimaux I saw above was on deck having, accompanied Capt. P. from from Oo-kood-lear. He instantly recognized my voice & called me by name saying 'How do you [[Mit'er Mitse?]] Hall.' Without waiting for my reply he went on in American style Pretty well I took you!' Right glad, indeed, was I to meet this noble, yet afflicted Esquimaux again. The four times I met him at Oo-kood-lear resulted in his being stamped upon my memory where it will endure as long as I. - Nukertou Myar's wife the family wife - was George's "Blind Georges - But Myar can support him & George cannot therefore George is bereft of his idol - of all that he holds dear on Earth save an only child which he cherishes as dearer than his life! Capt. Parker takes me below. The deeply interesting interview - Sends for his son Capt. John Parker of the Steam Slup Celia who immediately comes aboard orders a breakfast - Ham good! [[ditto?]] coffee. The Admiralty charts so far as Northumberland Inlet down to this place pronounced entirely incorrect including Capt. Perry's Chart. Latitude of Cape Elizabeth, Hull Island 62° - 45' Long 65° W. according to Capt. Parker. Capt. Parker & his son passed through a Channel 128 miles in length behind a line of Islands on W. side Northumberland Inlet as the came from [[Niuntlik?]] to Oo-koolear. the south termination was in Lat of Ookoolear. The [[steam?]] ship toward the slup. No vessel of the sizes of theirs unless by just such a wind can pass up or down said Channel. The pilot an intelligent Esquimaux. Width of Channel 1 to 2 miles. The scenery of the most magnificent character. As Capt. Parker expressed himself 'O, that you had been with us you would have been delighted! plenty [[?]] plenty deer & other game. Flood tide of this Channel runs south while in all other cases N. Capt. Parker Sr. been down Prince [[Regents?]] Inlet twice, as low as Cape [[Katur?]] - down there in 1833-4 there with Capt. Humphrey who received Sir John Ross & [[mess?]] aboard the Isabella 1834. Saw the boats of John Ross but supposed them to belong to Isabella. Saw thousands of Whales - not scores nor hundreds only but thousands' said Capt. P.' between Cape York & Cape [[Katur?]]' the latter point opposite side Prince Regents Inlet of Bellot Strait. Caught 5 Whales at Cape [[Katur?]] 28 in all between Capes York & [[Katur?]] beside the 14 to which he had made [[?]] to near Cape York but lost on account [[?]] the peculiar formation of the ice there forming a retreat for the whales against which no person here could counted successfully. Saw Seals, Narwals, White whales Name of his vessel when down Prince Regents Inlet 1833-4 "[[?]]"
