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1860 Tuesday Nov 27th Capt B., finding no [[underlined]] Buck [[/underlined]] shot among the stores supplied him, desired this eve to know if I would spare a bag of mine? Of course to him who [[underlined]] has been [[/underlined]] or [[underlined]] is [[/underlined]] as a father to me, tho' himself a trifle younger than myself - I will spare anything. He is my active co-operator - that is to say his noble heart prompts to do all within his power to aid me to advise - to [[underlined]] encourage [[/underlined]] me in this Great Work before me. Insensible, indeed, must be the heart of the writer, if I do not [[underlined]] now [[/underlined]] & [[underlined]] hereafter, [[/underlined]] recognize all this, & seek to make him some befitting return God grant that I may live to return to my native country to keep the friends who have been friends indeed to me - Who have entrusted to me their confidence that I would perform the duty of a [[underlined]] man [[/underlined]] in prosecuting the known Mission for which I am here. The Wind yesterday & to-day S.W. moderate. The temperature mild (very) for the [[underlined]] line of Latitude & Longitude. [[/underlined]] If the record of the next three days does not show a temperature considerable below that of any day yet in this month, then it may be considered that this has been an extraordinary month. Not a day yet at or below Zero! The record of +5° & +6° on the 19th [is the lowest, while all other days range from 10° to 32 1/2°. This eve at IX o'clock, the Moon [[underlined]] really made [[/underlined]] its appearance tho' during the time often covered with [[underlined]] truly purple blushings! Well, [[underlined]] She is a lady [[/underlined]] not [[underlined]] often [[/underlined]] seen (allowing our late experiences are sufficient to make us the judges, therefore, who should wonder, at her coyness when offering to full view of a [[underlined]] gazing [[/underlined]] Company as she does to-night? [[end page]] [[start page]] 1860 Tuesday Nov 27th hIX-m30 Only for a few moments were the curtains drawn by which the Moon could be seen. She is now closed in to all appearance from the Season. Thermometer 17° - Bar 29°.900 Wind still S.W. & light. The men of the G.H. engaged this morning stowing away that portion of the anchor chains usually kept on decks in readiness for paying out in case of an emergency. Sterry commenced to-day making sledges - [[underlined]] dog-sledges [[/underlined]] - for transporting Boats etc over the ice next Spring to open water for whaling. They are to be shod with bone - the jaw bone of a whale. This is Esquimaux custom. An excellent one, by the by. X o'clock night Very Cloudy Bar. 29.875 Ther. 17° S.W. Fresh [[line across page]] 1860 Wednesday Nov 28th A snow storm from the S.E. is upon us this morning. Any other weather than a gale Storm or Hurricanes of course is a [[underlined]] "rarity" [[/underlined]] to us! The rarity we richly enjoy as angel visits that are few & far between. The sun rises this Morning Mean Time h9-m02-s15 (that is the upper limbs & appearance in the horizon) This gives us a day of 5h - 55m - 30s and night 18 - 04 30 Sun's Amplitude at Rising E. 53°-16' S. The moon followed 1 hour since, to wit, at 7h-03m-17s AM Rescue Harbor Time. Miles of ice N.W.of us have been driven away since this wind veered to the S.E. leaving open water where it was. It is now AM & the appearances are that we are to see "what we shall see".
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