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(1) 1861 Apr 22 Mon The supper - Seal & Walrus raw & frozen - & cooked. The weariness of my limbs - The walk of the day quick - our stopages numerous therefore requiring quick steps to make the distance. Arrival at IX Eve. Annawa & one child retired - the nuliana & all others up! The rejoicing of my arrival. Annawa participates tho naked in bed Innuit custom. Had never seen Annawa & his nuliana (Nood-loo-ony) before except at the time of our making anchorage in Rescue Harbor [[note]] (See end of Monday - 29th Record)[[/note]] It will be recollected that I accompanied Que-jesse & his party when they conveyed Annawa, Kood-loo-ony & two or 3 others across the Bay last fall to assist them on their journey home. Of this trip [[underlined]] This is my 'first night in an Igloo!' [[/underlined]] Koo-jes-se pointed out place where White men put masts in (1) Ship out in Bay as we came toward Annawa,s. Tuesday, Apr 23d 1861 Ther 14 AM Wind, S.E. [[strikethrough]] N.W. [[/strikethrough]] Modt. Fair weather " [[ditto for: Ther]] 28 M " [[ditto for: Wind]] N.W. " " " [[dittos for: Modt Fair weather]] 10 PM " " " " " " [[dittos for: Wind NW. Modt. Fair weather]] My sleep last night was a sound one tho' I was tightly squeezed - the sleepers being numerous & all in the same bed! There were nine of us beside [[underlined]] the infant at the breast [[/underlined]] - a boy three 1/2 feet in hight of portly dimensions! [[strikethrough]] Nood-loo-ong [[/strikethrough]] Key-e-zhen-ne the Mother, (nuliana of Annawa) in her place before he Ik-Ku-men with infant, Kok-uke-jung between herself & Annawa - the next child Oo-suk-je-un between Annawa & myself - Que-jesse at my [[underlined]] right, [[/underlined]] where facing upward - then Esh-ee-loo (At-ton-ze-ak-too) with his nuliana Oong-a by his side limiting the sleeping now in that direction - then with feet mixing in with our faces etc were young man Innuit & little orphan Kimmulu (daughter of the deceased Cudlargo) who lives with Annawa. The spaces in which the 10 were compacted - [[underlined]] interwoven [[/underlined]] - was less than as many feet! Of course, I had to sleep in my day-dress as not a [[underlined]] "spare bed" [[/underlined]] is kept in reserve for company. [[?]]y Innuits - now have they a tuk-too [[?leggings]] [[end page]] [[start page]] (2) 1861 Tues Apr 23 more than they need; but I got along through the night after a way - In attempting to turn now & then to relieve the aching bones that were [[strikethrough]] beneath a [[/strikethrough]] nethermost the child beside me would as often groan as a young roaring lion alarming the mother as if harm was being done her [[underlined]] darling [[/underlined]] I kept myself in position as long as endurance would allow me - yet turn I must & [[underlined]] then I did, [[/underlined]] tho' at the expense of awaking the whole family! Early in the Morning, that is to say, before the Sun was 2 hours up - before the Innuits were astir, I slipped, as a snake out of his deciduous epidermis, from my Craunched envelope - shook myself, yawned, stretched - & prepared myself for a morning walk. I then made my way up the mountain by wh the Igloos are flanked - the sight of [[underlined]] Meta Incognita [[/underlined]] stretching its pinnacled front far distant meeting my view Up - Up - I went till the peak was reached. There I stood drinking in the nectar dancing for my taste. I was now where I had long hoped to be! Around the Island on wh. I stood was a circle of ice making a fine foot way for travel - to the Southward - the Westward the waters of Frobisher Bay were before me its surface dotted over with broken ice that was quietly resting upon it. [[underlined]] Navigation open! [[/underlined]] I was not long alone, for soon I was visited by Annawa & 2 other Innuits who had come up as is usual with them in the Morning to take a look at the day's prospect for Sealing & Walrus hunting. With my "Spy" I had seen a Walrus basking on the ice. This gave them cheer. A few moments they were off - & with Walrus gear I saw them 1/2 an hour after making their way out on the ice floes, singing as merrily as tho' they were on [[underlined]] terra firma [[/underlined]] on the prairies of the Great West. Looking around among the peble stones on the top, I found fossils [[strikethrough]] stones [[/strikethrough]] numerous & gathered many. As I turned my glass to the West & N.W., I was saddened to find that the prospect of making a sledge journey to the head of Frobisher Bay was anything but encouraging - the open Sea was where I expected to find ice fields. The [[strikethrough]] day [[/strikethrough]] morn was quite clear - I could see [[underlined]] Resolution Island [[/underlined]] (or land directly N. of it) distant some 50 miles & from thence "Meta Incognita" as my eye followed its coast became more & more distinct till passing the point nearest me as distance increased it receeded to
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