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(2) 1861 Apr 24th Wedns From B. point sighted by Az. C. & Centre Oo-pung-ne-wing bore = 165° [[red boxed text referred to earlier]] During the day concluded arrangements by wh. Kokerjabin - her son & Sterry are to accompany me to-morrow, if fair, to the next Innuit settlement, 25 miles or so above - up Frobisher Bay. Sterry's eyes are bad - but by the expected eye-water & the glasses that will probably arrive this Eve it is hoped that he may venture on the journey. [[note]] Apr 23d/61 A [[/note]] [[/red boxed text]] I have [[?]] "Cap-a-tain" over to Annawa's for my bread-bag telling Que-jesse to take out a little for his own use. The bag has arrived with but a trifle of the original amount of the bread in it. Give an Innuit liberty of any eating material, & he exercises no mercy either to his own stomach of that of any body's else! He overwhelms his own, [[underlined]] even to surfeit, [[/underlined]] & leaves others to dry: O, Innuit, I love thee - but thou lovest my life, or rather - [[underlined]] the "Staff" of it [[/underlined]] - better! [[note]] Apr 24th/61 [[/note]] This eve, the Innuit who was sent to the vessel for eye-water & glasses for Sterry, arrived; but only to add disappointment to vexation, for, on receiving the package, the glasses turned out to be the [[underlined]] wrong [[/underlined]] ones & the eye-water proved to be Muriate of Zinc - a soldering fluid! The wrong bottle had been sent! But after some tall talk on the part of the [[underlined]] eye sufferer [[/underlined]] it was finally concluded [[underlined]] "Whatever is is"! [[/underlined]] & that the best way was to make the best of it. However the mistake came near being far more serious than it was; for Sterry was about to make a free application of the contents of this Bottle, [[note]] Apr 23d/61 B [[/note]] [[end page]] [[start page]] 1861 Apr. 24th Wedns. when at the moment he discovered that the bottle was not the eye water but that of his soldering fluid. His eyes might have been lost by the simple application of this stuff! All in all, it was finally concluded that we would start up the Bay to-morrow. [[note]] Apr 23d/61 C [[/note]] My [[underlined]] third night in an Igloo [[/underlined]] is where I spent my 2d. [[note]] This questionable point [[?]] made July 29th/63 H. [[/note]] Continuation of Apr 24/61 [[strikethrough]] Thursday, Apr 25th (?) 1861 Ther. A.M. 14° Wind Light Cloudy " [[ditto for: Ther.]] Noon 30 Calm & Warm " [[ditto for: Cloudy]] " [[ditto for: Ther.]] P.M. 9° " [[ditto for: Cloudy]] [[/strikethrough]] Wedns Apr 24/61 Continued It was near Meridian before we got off to-day. It takes an Innuit just so much time, sometimes short & sometimes [[underlined]] long [[/underlined]] to get started on a journey where they expect to be gone several days. About the time we started (XI O'Clock) we had a fine dinner on Cooked Walrus. "Cap-a-tain" harnessed little dog "Pink" one of the family of dogs that Flora brought forth on board the G.H. several months ago, to a toy sledge both of wh. he felt inclined to take with him & of course [[underlined]] did. [[/underlined]] Our 1st 5 miles were circuitous & [[image: zig-zag]] though the course was due N. by Compass. From the breaking up the ice, which had occured two days prior to my arrival, & its absence, we were obliged to follow the shore ice, walking on what Dr. Kane called: the Ice-foot. Of course, [[underlined]] our course [[/underlined]] was one minute one-way, another moment
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