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Saturday, May 4th 1861.
AM M PM | AM Snow storms from N.
8 30 18[[degree symbol]] | M " " [[dittos for: Snow storm from N.]] [[underlined]] furious [[/underlined]]
28.75 28.625 28.475| PM " " " " [[dittos for: Snow storm from N. [[underlined]] furious [[/underlined]] ]] 
Mate Lamb, Que-jes-se & Charley with 2 teams started out this A.M. VI O'Clk for Whale depot.
At X a furious snow storm which continues to the present. Only one good day for Astronomical Observations since I started for "Frobisher Bay", now nearly 2 weeks!
[[image: cross]] May 5th 1861
A.M. 25[[degree symbol]] 28.475  Gale N.E.
M 30[[degree symbol]] 28.525 " " [[dittos for: Gale N.E.]]  
PM 25[[degree symbol]] 28.600 " " [[dittos for: Gale N.E.]]  
Actually a difficult matter to tell whether it snowed or not - 
It horizontally [[underlined]] flew, [[/underlined]] however, thus all day. [[image: drawing]]
A continuation of bad weather!  Through the night the gale has prevailed unceasingly - & [[underlined]] furiously. [[/underlined]] Had I been on my exploring expedition [[strikethrough]] dur[[?]] [[/strikethrough]] of Frobisher B. the Coasts etc, little could have been accomplished during the last 14 days - [[underlined]] but one operative day [[/underlined]] - in this time!
At half past 6 O'Clk this Eve, to our surprise Mate Lamb & Koo-pe-ne-ung (Charley) returned with Kum-mi-tie & dogs. I say 'surprised' from the fact that a [[underlined]] most furious [[/underlined]] gale ^[[ [[underlined]] was [[/underlined]] & [[underlined]] is [[/underlined]] ]] blowing - the snow so thick & ^[[* flying so]] fiercely that one ^[[could not &]] [[underlined]] cannot [[/underlined]] see a rod ahead of him. Happily, however, it is not cold (Ther 25[[degree symbol]]). [[strikethrough]] He [[/strikethrough]] ^[[They]] report [[strikethrough]] s [[/strikethrough]] that Que-jesse with the other team of dogs is following [[strikethrough]] his [[/strikethrough]] ^[[their]] wake.  
Anxious eyes have been turned to Southward for last 2 hours for ^[[ [Quejesse.]]  At 8 he arrived! One of the dogs ("Bob's from Annawas settlement) was killed in this trip by the ^[[mad]] strokes of the Innuit dog driver with the stock of his whip over its head. How [[underlined]] unmercifull [[strikethrough]] y [[/strikethrough]] [[/underlined]] are the punishments inflicted by these fellows [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] ^[[on]] these [[underlined]] noble "Camels of the North"! [[/underlined]]
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Monday May 6th 1861
AM 30[[degree symbol]] 28.6 Wind N.E. Strong & Thick
M 28 28.55  " " " " [[dittos for: Wind N.E.  Strong & Thick]]
PM. 27 28.55  " [[ditto for: Wind]] Snow
The Gale continued until 3 this Morn. It was succeeded by [[underlined]] Fair [[/underlined]] sky [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] Calm & Sunshine! At VI AM Snowing! Wind in the N. & ^[[blowing]] strong. It is well I returned as I did - such a continuation of unpleasant stormy weather. By VII, Re-commencement of the Gale snow flying like chaff from a Winnowing Mill with this exception, the snow finds no resting place - constantly on the swift wings of the wind.  As this bad weather keeps the G. Henry's plans back, & as the Commander desired that [[underlined]] something should be done in the mean time, [[/underlined]] he proposed that the dogs (now 25 in number) should be taken over to Oo-pung-ne-wing (An-na-wa's settlement) & there be fed up, then to return with a load of Walrus feed for the dogs.
He tried the several [[strikethrough]] Inuits [[/strikethrough]] Innuits (Huskys) but each declined on account of the Gale & flying snow.  Were tried, E-bier-bing (Joe);  Koo-pe-ne-ung (Charley);  Kar-ne-ung (Sharkey);  Kin-nu-ar-le-ping (Jim Crow); ^[[& Que-jes-se (Jesse)]] but ^[[neither]] [[strikethrough]] one [[/strikethrough]] dared [[strikethrough]] not [[/strikethrough]] the undertaking - saying they thought it impossible for them to make Oo-pung-ne-wing (Annawas Island) after reaching the other Bay. Notwithstanding [[underlined]] storm-wind [[/underlined]] & snow, I proposed to Capt. Budington that I would volunteer to go with either of said Innuits - & conduct him there. Yet, no one would venture;  therefore the elements can have it all to themselves without any one to contest - no one "to enter into the fray"!
XII O'Clock (Meridian) - I have just returned from a Mile's ride on Kum-mi-tie drawn Frobisher-Bay-ward, by 25 Innuit dogs!
At 1/2 past 11, the gale having abated (considerably), & the ^[[ [[symbol: Sun]] just]] peering through the curtains, Capt. B. concluded [[underlined]] he would go himself [[/underlined]] to Oo-pung-ne-wing [[strikethrough]] accompied [[/strikethrough]] taking along with him two of the Innuits, Kar-ne-ung & Kin-nu-ar-le-ping. On this determination, we got all things in readiness for him - dogs, harnesses etc. etc. I brought out my tuk-too fur jacket & gave it him that it may be his shield, if the contest - fight - becomes [[underlined]] too cold! [[/underlined]]  Each stomach, becoming [[underlined]] charged [[/underlined]] with the right kind of ammunition for the warfare [[strikethrough]] they [[/strikethrough]] about to be engaged in, to wit, ^[[charged with]] Bread, Meat & ^[[hot]] Coffee, the word was given:  'All ready!'
Capt. B. led off - making tracks - [[underlined]] many [[/underlined]] in short distances & [[underlined]] deep. [[/underlined]]  Certainly, the dogs which were soon to follow the foot -
 

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