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[[circled]] 8 [[/circled]] [[circled]] 8 [[/circled]] [[boxed]] 1861 May 28 Tues [[/boxed]] I have made reference to the walk & [[underline]] talk [[/underline]] with Ebierbing. I was interesting to hear this Innuit speak of the great price Seko-Sealer Innuits are willing to give for such articles as ore of iron. They would give a Seal or Tuk-too jacket for a small piece of Iron for a Spear head harpoon point or [[strikethrough]] [[the?]] [[/strikethrough]] a Deer Skin for a needle Said E. They cannot get these articles only once in a great while - when some Innuit goes from here there. Seko-Selar Innuits continued he have to use bone needles. The brother of "Jack" [[strikethrough]] who arrived [[/strikethrough]] a few years ago took a gun (wh. Capt Budington let him have at Oo-Kood-lean) with him to Se-Ko-Selar- He had but few balls - When out made balls of stone. Not many years ago the Innuits here were in same condition as Se-Ko-Se-lar natives. No ships visited these waters. Then bows & arrows were used - now guns. Ebierbing says he once met a Se-Ko-Se-lar Innuit when out hunting. He could not understand for a long time what he said so different did he speak. Even the dogs which made up ^[[insertion]] most of [[/insertion]] our team [[strikethrough]] consist of [[/strikethrough]] were difficult to[[strikethrough]] mang [[/stikethrough]] manage because they could not understand the language we used in driving dogs here. As we neared the land [[strikethrough]] fro [[/strikethrough]] on the opposite side Rescue Bay the Sun was tipping the mountains in red Two O'Clock & 27 minutes AM of this 28th. I noticed also that clouds were hugging [[strikethrough]] said [[/strikethrough]] some of the high land. This indicated to me a storm coming. At 3-45 AM we passed on to the land, leaving Rescue Bay behind us. This made 5 hours 13 ^[[ m ]] since leaving vessel. 1/4 mile from Tide water I was on a small eminence overlooking the Bay. To this time the wind had been moderate. Now it began to blow [[strikethrough]] in [[/strikethrough]] strong from the S.W. Getting on the Lee side of a [[end page]] [[start page]] [[circled]] 9 [[/circled]] [[circled]] 9 [[/circled]] [[boxed]] 1861 May 28 Tues [[/boxed]] huge rock on rather a pile of them - I took Compass bearings [[image: sketch of flag flying over mountain]] Budington Mt 211 [[degree symbol]] [[circled]] C [[/circled]] Grinnell Mt 256 Cyrus W Field Mt 320 Extreme "SE trend of Land" Hall Island 172 [[degree symbol]] From Thence the eminence on wh. these sights were made I passed on. The rest of the Co. with dogs & Kum-mi-tu had [[strikethrough]] pre [[/strikethrough]] preceeded me. They were at the top of the high land - the ridge dividing Frobisher Bay from Rescue bay ere I could come up with them. The course I took from Rescue Bay to said ridge was = 77 [[degrees symbol]] Distance [[tally marks showing 10]] less 1 [[image: sketch of a flag flying over a mountain]] Mt Grinnell bore = 257 (Mt. Robinson) (S.W. Side of Rescue Bay) = 224 Peak left hand us Enter "Countess of Warwick Sound" = 103 [[degrees symbol]] {Highest Point Mt. Head'um} {opposite side of head of said Bay} {as we enter it} = 83 Centre of "Bayard Taylor Pass" 90 [[degrees symbol]] This pass walled each side by Bald Mountains, [[strikethrough]] that look down [[/strikethrough]] make the traveller exclaim: Great God, Thy Works are Mighty! [[wavy line]] Course 90 [[degrees symbol]] Distance 1111 83 to head of tide water Frobisher Bay. Here ends land route. {Time of arrival here {By Chro. X-25-4-38= /28th O'Clk R Horbard. 5-47AM
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The page numbers for (8) and (9) are repeated twice on the top lines.
The "I" in the middle of the 2nd line should be "It", but I left as written.