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I fear Nuk-er-tow will die. Little Kim-min-lu sitting up on the platform busily sewing -
Kuk-er-zhun the nuliana of Chirnrvarchu[[guess]] - (Johnny Bull) was very attentive to me. This [[strikethrough]] was [[/strikethrough]] the best "Igloo" I have yet seen - In truth the 1st regular "out & out Igloo that I have visited. The [[strikethrough]] Cour [[/strikethrough]] Court - [[underlined]] the long [[/underlinedd]] passage - the small entrance the beautiful effect when within - no lamp burning - no seal Blubber! My departure - the sad Nukertow - at my going  -
The two little Esquimaux boys & dog that accompanied me. ^[[Ebirnbrings]] [[strikethough]] My [[/strikethrough]] Seal Spear (oo-nan) on "ice-cave" in my hand & going ^[[along kept it]] continually in use when on the channel between New-gummy-apu Island & mountains. - track over the ice & small mounts - distant [[strikethrough]] W [[/strikethrough]] North & westward 3 miles - the dangerous ice crust 1 1/2 inch thick - beneath it slush - the retreat as if on hot-bricks. The completion of the Main Igloo - the Master in the profession.
Mr. Miner. My entrance - My astonishment at the beauty. The [[underlined]] one stain [[/underlined]] in the apex or center of the dome otherwise one of the most chaste pieces of architecture I ever saw! That one stain of a civilization product - tobacco! I seized the long snow-knife in the hands of one of the Esquimaux & scraped away that which marred the whole! the Esq. standing in silence [[strikethrough]] as it if almost [[/strikethrough]] awe-^[[struck]] as I done
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this - Their kindly cheers as I completed the act of extinction of this ^[[spot from]] the debasing habits of White man's tobacco chewing.
The procedure of erecting an "Ig-loo", - placing the base tier of snow blocks in a circle - this Igloo of "Charley" & "Miu^[[r]]e's"[[guess]] - 12 feet in diameter ^[[at the base where it rests]] on the top of deep snow - thickness of blocks 6 in; height 2 feet; length 2 1/2 to 3 feet - the base tier placed, a knife cuts off a starting point for running up the walls [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] in a spiral - 38 blocks in the spiral including the cap. 16 pieces or blocks in base - height (inside measure) from platform to dome 6 feet - height of platform 2 feet - platform over the whole except at the entrance, ^[[a stand - space]] which occupies perhaps one 15th of the area
[[image: drawing of floor plan of front entrance to igloo with 'platform for beds', 'standing place', 'entrance', and 'arc' of igloo' noted]]
Mellowness of the light. Then completed in circle & ^[[its fine]] dome shape!
Call of Ebierbing's - find him gone & other natives in their dinner's at the G. Henry.
Tuk-oo-li-to knitting busily - says she cannot bear to spend the whole day without doing some work - knitting gloves - said she was growing better - would be so she should visit the vessel in two or 3 days 
Call at Mgan's[[?]] - he engaged fastening his dog sledge together - fastening [[strikethrough]] [[?]] bound [[/strikethrough]] it together with Whale-bone - the beams so numerous that it covers the whole top. Nothing in civilization ^[[in way of sleds]] to compare in strength with the fastenings [[strikethrough]] by [[/strikethrough]] which the native sledges [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] have! The shoeing of your - Whale - bone!