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Wednesday May 1st 1861 AM M PM } Wind 12[[degree symbol]] 16[[degree symbol]] 10[[degree symbol]] } AM Gale N E 28.3 28.375 28.5 } M E. } PM Fresh clearing up } May-day has come! Now for Maying! But [[underlined]] where [[/underlined]] are the Flowers? The storm of yesterday continued till Meridian, when it broke. Indications at the west favorable. My complaint - snow-blindness - getting better. The bad weather keeps Esh-oo-loo & his nuliana, Oong-a, from returning. We have a liberal share ^[[now]] of bad weather. It is well I returned as I did. [[line with loops across page]] This day Thurs May 2/61 Compared Chronometers - h m s R's 1-51-9 GH's 1-40-0 ^[[ [[checkmark]] ]] [[line]] 11-9 Thursday May 2d 1861 AM M PM } Am Light NW, Cloudy - 10[[degree symbol]] 30 10[[degree symbol]] } M " " " [[dittos for: Light N W Cloudy]] 28.775 28.725 28.750 } PM " " " [[dittos for: Light N W Cloudy]] This Morning the Innuits who accompanied me over, started back, having been delayed 2 days by the continued bad weather. I gave Esh-oo-loo 3 lbs shot, Box of percussion caps & Tobacco with wh. he seemed greatly pleased. Of course, he & winga have been glad to remain here - living on the ship's fare wh. all Innuits like [[underlined]] very much. [[/underlined]] Eshooloo's eyes were even worse than my own from Monday's tramp. Charley started off with dogs & sledge [[strikethrough]] conveying [[/strikethrough]] * ^[[&]] a cask of molasses for Whale depot. The snow wh. has just fallen impedes travel. Charley made me a pair of Wooden specks (Innuit style) to-day. I shall take the precaution to use them when I make another tour. Sharkey buckets[[guess]] ^[[- Molasses not there -]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[Note: paper on top of page obscuring part of date entry]] [[boxed]] May 3. [[strikethrough]] Thur. [[/strikethrough]] [[/boxed]] Friday, May 3d 1861 AM M PM } Wind N. W. Light 10[[degree symbol]] 30 11[[degree symbol]] } Day [[underlined]] Fine [[/underlined]] 28.850 28.850 28.50 } This has been a gloriously [[underlined]] Fine [[/underlined]] day! Not a cloud - clear, blue sky & but light wind. This P.M. 3 1/2 o'clock, while I was engaged making Astronomical Observations, Ebierbing & Tuk-oo-li-too have in sight in the E. with dogs & Kummitie. [[strikethrough]] the later [[/strikethrough]] They have brought everything, expecting to continue here till my departure for "King William's Land" next July. Ebirnbing brings his dogs to assist ^[[Capt B.]] as already indicated. I am glad to meet them again - & they apparently to see me. A short time after [[strikethrough]] Jim Crow f[[?]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] "Jim Crow" (Kin-nu-ar-le-ping, son of Ar-tark-pa-ru) arrived with Chev-ing-[[underlined]] Koo's team. [[/underlined]] R. Chro This Morning ^[[& in the PM]] made observations for Time (Index Error -1[[feet symbol]] -45[[inch symbol]]) h m s AM h PM. m s [[encircled]] A 1-52-10 70[[degree symbol]] -00 = | = 7-15-05 = } [[encircled]] B 1-53-30 70-15 = | 7-13-35 = } * 1-56-30 70-45 | } [[encircled]] C [[/encircled]] 1-58-00 71-00 = | = 7-9-10 = } [[line]] PM [[line with loops]] h m s | h m s 7-33-21 66-45[[feet symbol]] | 7-26-25 68[[degree symbol]] - 00[[feet symbol]] 35-30 66-20 | 7-27-50 68-45 [[line with loop]] [[line with loop]] h m s | h m s 8-2-55 61[[degree symbol]] - 00[[feet symbol]] | 7-12-15 70[[degree symbol]] - 30[[feet symbol]] 3-25 59-55 | 17-45 67-30 3-48 50 | 19-25 69-15 4-17 45 22-17 68-45 4-37 40 | 25-00 68-15 5-00 35 | 25-00 68-15
