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1861 Monday Feb 4th

Igloo for her & then hastened on following the Kum-mi-ti tracks leading to our Village.

In the Morning - VII oclock - the young man Innuit ? with a little tin bucket of raw-seal for the enfeebled woman hastened to bring her in.  An hour sufficed.  Now we have an addition to our town of 4 souls including the young man who belonged to Angekoo's company till the Inst. when he arrived here in a half starved condition.  I feel considerable anxiety about this addition knowing that there are no enterprising persevering Sealers or hungers  in AngeKo & young man.  I am well acquainted with the stuff of wh. Angeko is made - or rather [[underlined]] I know what he is now! [[/underlined]]  As long as he can live off of the generosity of the credulous people he operates upon as Angeko, [[underlined]] he will! [[/underlined]]  Of course, his wives must live & the young man Innuit must live!  How?  Wait & see!  The 3 Sealers of our village who have to struggle to live & feed their families, will have to contribute to Angeko & family's sustenance!  Wich-ou!  (Wait)

The story, as near as I can make it out, about Angeko & his family being here is as follows:  They left the village (upper) the day (or two or 3 days) preceeding our leaving the vessel.  They took their all, save tupik which Angeko continued to occupy till he left (too lazy to make an Igloo) on their backs & packed away up to a place on the nuna (land) opposite where we made our 1st Igloo.  There they continued till their arrival last night & this Morning.  Angeko says that he labored hard to seal

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1861 Monday Feb 4th

but having no dog could not find seal-holes without great trouble.  Says that during the time since they left the upper village to the time of their arrival here no food - or fire-light.  This would make, at least, time over-running 30 days!  I must confess being quite skeptical to this story from the appearance of the parties themselves!  Their cheeks are to all appearance nearly as full as corn - their weight I cannot see has decreased greatly.  The walk of the feeble broken down woman who was left behind by Angeko was as rapid & strong as an robust person's could be.  That they have been hard up for food, I doubt not - but that the case has been as Angeko declares, the appearance of the persons themselves, [[underlined]] through Nature, [[/underlined]] belies him.  But Angeko knows as well as any White man I ever saw, how to make his way along through the World without pysical Work!  He even tried [[underlined]] his 'game' [[/underlined]] on me, once as will be recollected by any one perusing my Journal some months preceeding this !

The way Ange-ko found our village was by the Kum-mi-ti tracks made by Ugarny when he went down to the vessel last Friday.

Ebierbing & Jack ([[space]]) started out on a sealing excursion this Morning intending to remain till to-morrow.  They go South.  Punni started early this Morn. for the object of crossing Budington Inlet to get some seal on the nuna (land) deposited by one of the wives of AngeKo last Spring.  She returned by VII this eve, having found the seal meat wh. had not, like wine, improved by age.