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1861 Thursday Jan 10

By 3 O'clock PM. I, leading the way discovered tarrioke (the sea).  Soon the team came up.  Just before reaching the ice, the way was very abrupt rocky declivity.  The dogs were taken off - detached entirely from the Kum-mi-ti.  A good subject for Illustration:  Tuk-oo-li-too holding on to the trace lines of the dogs whip in hand (lash 30 feet long).  Some of the dogs on their haunches dog fashion.  Some laying down & 2 standing up - (Tukoolitoo in her new rig).  While Ebierbing Kood-loo & myself were engaged carefully letting down the loaded sledge the declivity leading to the sea.

E on the left side - Kood-loo on the left - both holding back by side straps - & I in the rear pulling back by a long line of Oog-juke driving my heels into the hard-crust.  Thus the load was saftely conducted to the edge of the sea-ice.  The tide out - some difficulty in getting onto the main ice.  On came the dogs having broken loose from the lady driver who I found could handle the Whip as dexterously as the best of the men Innuits.  Finally all safely on the Seko (ice) I & Tuk-oo-li-too leading the way.  Where we now were was a pretty Bay flanked in by mountains.  Thence we proceeded for 5 miles when we came to an Igloo out on the ice wh. had been erected the night before by Ugarny & his party & in wh. they had evidently spent the night.  Darkness approaching it was at first thought best to make our stop there but finding the Igloo too small for our ample accomodations decided to proceede on till we found another spot of good snow & erect a larger one.  We made the distance of one mile & found good material for a Snow-house & here we made our stop at 5 O'Clock.

Ebierbing & Kood-loo went direct to work sawing out snow blocks while I carried them to the spot selected on wh. to raise the Igloo now encircling & enclosing us within.  It took us one hour to make it.  A right good one it is - resplendent I see on going out & looking toward it as the light of the burning Kumer makes it.  It is indeed comfortable withal, the door way being now sealed up!  Supper is now under way.

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1861 Thursday Jan 10th

The extended wick (stretching along 2 1/2 feet) of the Ik-Ku-mer (Fire Lamp) sends forth a fine glowing heat, making the tea-kettle sing as tho there was music some-where!

Our Supper consists of Cincinnati Crackling Soup - a small piece (for each) of raw salt pork - 1/2 Sea biscuit each & Coffee!

Tuk-oo-li-too proves herself a capital Cook.  It strikes me from what I have seen to day - & to-night no party should think of travelling here N. without an Innuit man & wife for the latter above all is the all in all most important.  Soon as the Igloo was completed, Tuk-oo-li-too as is the Innuit custom on enclosing in the Igloo entered & commenced at once to erect the Kood-le-ong (stone Lamp) & appendages in their right positions.  The Ik-Ku-mer (Fire Lamp) was soon in full blaze, a Kettle filled with snow over it making water for coffee & soup.  She then proceeded to place several pieces of boards we brought along with us on the snow platform where were to be our beds.  On these board rest the canvass containing the small dry shrubbery (Ki-u-tan) with wh. this N. country abounds in Summer.  Over this she placed a Mattress on wh. are the tuk-too (rein deer) furs wh. make the bed proper.  (The sheets & comforts combined).  Following this every article on the sledge is passed in at a little opening made on the back side of the Igloo for the purpose of convenience in getting things to rights.  It is not the entrance proper.  When every thing is in, the entrance way is made on the opposite side to the platform where rest the beds.

The drying of whatever has been worn during the day or whatever has become wet with perspiration, falls to the duties of the Igloo-wife (not [[underlined]] house- [[/underlined]] wife).  She places the things on the In-me-tar (a net over the (Fire Lamp) for drying & attending to turning of them at various times in the night.
Her other duties are the repairing