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1861 
May 
28 
Tues 
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Bay to determine time & means of Exploring it??  By the by, the other mitten I lost three times from my hand [[strikethrough]] s [[/strikethrough]] yesterday - in fact four times.  found the same three times - the [[underlined]] fourth [[/underlined]] hunt unsuccessful - I came back minus the last mitten of the Sampson pair!
A new case was [[?]] for my Marine (opera) glass. Tuk-oo-litoo made ^[[a water proof]] one & made fast to it a strap by which I suspend it by my side making it very convenient in its frequent use.  She selected such articles of my dresses as I should need, exercising her own good judgement founded on experience in her native regions as the quantity & kind - done them up snugly & bagged them.
My Kummins & stockings were put in order, the former softened by a kind of "milling" process by use of. Tukoolito does not practice the [[strikethrough]] tooth [[/strikethrough]] "teething" mode of softening soles of Boots as other Innuit women do.  She thinks it a kind of [[theker?]] - a way - wanting in [[underlined]] good taste [[/underlined]] & in cleanliness.  Besides, she says she wishes to preserve her teeth - not wear them out in [[underlined]] Milling [[/underlined]] leather!  As I said, I found this noble, kind-hearted Innuit in tears, I bid her not to do this - that such tears should be kept for those that were kind & good to ^[[her]] - such as could [[underlined]] repay [[/underlined]] for the works she done for them.  As for me, Tuk-oo-litoo, I'm not worth a tear! [[underlined]] This brought a flood of scolding over[[/underlined]]; so I ceased, - bid her another 'Good cheer" & departed, feeling that evidence - proof positive - looms up every day that she & her Winga (Ebirbing) are my [[underlined]] true [[/underlined]] friends of the North!

Three o'clock by Chronometer, or rather 15h - 00m Astronomical time, Greenwich, (providing the instrument was not 17m - 42s too fast) (=10 o'clk 22m - 18s PM Mean Time, Rescue Harbor) When we started.

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1861 
May
28 
Tues
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The company consisted of Six, to wit
Self,
Ebirbing, 
[[encircled]] Pinnie now wife No 2 of Myarny [[/encircled]] An-nu-ting-er-mar-ing
[[strikethrough]] [[Oued-back-tine?]] brother of Kou-Kin [[/strikethrough]] 

Oung met-cher-ung  brother Koo-ki
(sometimes pronounced = Arng-mer chee-e-ong)
{Kus-se-e-ung, winga (husband)
{An-me-tik-er-tung, nuliana (wife)

Panie (Annutingermaring) intended going as far as Annuwu's ^[[settlement]] ([[Oo-pung-ne-wing?]]) to remain visiting at "Bob's", the Innuit Philanthropist (Innuit name, King-[[?]]-che-ung)

Myself, Parnie & An-nu-tik-er-tung [[striketrough]] lead [[/strikethrough]] led the way - After making 1/2 mile out, I looked around them, was Tuk-oo-li-too still following, ^[[with her eye]] our departing steps.  The "George Henry"'s deck never was [[underlined]] bedecked [[/underlined]] with a nobler soul than that woman's.  It actuates her to deeds that redown to her Sex - to humanity. 
At 11 - 14 P.M. (That is In 52 Minutes from the time of starting) arrived at the "upper village" [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] (or rather where it was last Fall & beginning of Winter). Here we came for the object of getting various things belonging to [[Oung-met-cheu-ung?]] & [[Kussecung?]] that they left when they departed at the commencement of Winter for Frobisher Bay.  While they gathered up a portion of what they intended, I walked up a small hill & sighted: Budington Mount bore by compass 212 [[degree symbol]]
        Grinnell Mount "  " [[ditto for: bore by compass]] 312
Course from vessel to said Village 8[[degree symbol]]

Transcription Notes:
I changed "June" to "Tues" in the boxed dates. May 28 in 1861 was a Tuesday.--thomas