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Saturday Dec 8th 1860

Kou-per-a-chu is dead!  His spirit has returned to God who gave it. 
This Esquimaux whom I commenced to visit on the 5th died last night (12 o'clock). 
As in my notes of the 5th; it did not seem possible for him to live.  Yesterday when on my visit to the village, I left medicine with him which I desired Tuk-oo-li-tu to complete in administering last night.  I was too sick myself last eve to venture out, therefore Tuk-oo-li-tu very kindly offered to do everything for the sick I might direct.

Not unexpectedly I learn the death of Koo-par-a early this morning VI o'clk.  An-koo-ting & medicines could avail him nothing.  The morning is star & Moon light.  Ther. [[underlined]] minus [[/underlined]] 7° which of course is colder than at any time before here this Winter.  Bar. 29.375  Wind fresh from N.W.  At VIII o'clock AM Ther - 9°

Mgan & others start out on a Sealing excursion to-day.

Even as my health is restored - that is over with the cold now afflicting me - I wish to commence Survey operations of this Harbor & "Rescue Bay" & continue said exercise till even "Frobisher" Bay is [[underlined]] adorning [[/underlined]] my Chart!

By means of dogs & sledges I can accomplish [[underlined]] something [[/underlined]] ere my departure for King William's Land next season  
What pleasure it will give me to be able to transmit to the Enlightened World by the return of the "George Henry", a statement accompanied by chart of the unsurveyed, aye the undiscovered Bays, lands Coasts &c

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1860 Sat. 8th Dec

of some of these Northern Regions  
What joy to any man the knowledge that he has done some good!

At 12 Meridian, Thermometer [[underlined]] both in sun & shade [[/underlined]] at Zero.

The Captain visited ashore among the [[strikethrough]] tupiks [[/strikethrough]] Igloos this Morn.  And so of several of the officers.  Smith froze his nose!  He declares he did not experience the least cold in it, & knew nothing of it till Mate Gardiner [[strikethrough]] told him [[/strikethrough]] spoke to him as he turned around:  'Smith your nose is [[underlined]] frozen'! 'H-l [[/underlined]] it is! said "Smith in reply.  Quite a contrast in the two words "frozen" & "h-l" under the circumstances!  I have been obliged to keep in doors to-day - keeping myself as comfortable as circumstances will admit.  I find I must either take care of the cold I have or it will take care of me.

I have taken the opportunity to-day of testing the learning capacity of several young Esquimaux children.  I tried them in learning [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] a few letters of the Alphabet.  It may be stated that no people in the World not excepting those of the U.S.  have greater capacity for advancement than those Esquimaux!

"Puk-e-ne-yang" was one of the pretty girls & my favorite little An-nutik-er-tung another that interestingly called after me the said letters. Of course, the learning of the letters of our Alphabet is a difficult matter said I, with a book before them, [[strikethrough]] What is [[/strikethrough]] 'Kis-Shu?' pointing to "Another letter.  Each would answer 'Kes-su-ge-arny' (I do not know)  In 1/2 an hour 4 learned 1/2 doz. such letters so that they could select them from any page of reading matter I might happen to turn to.

The interest each felt as I lead them on & on (exclaiming as I did 'Ar-me-larng' (whenever they called the letters correctly) was almost unexampled in any children I ever witnessed.