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[[boxed]] 1861 May 28 Tues. [[/boxed]] [[encircled, upper right]] 22 [[/encircled]] to direction to this "George Henry". My own [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] judgment agreed with them. But a great Navigator carries something in his vessel [[strikethrough]] ^something [[/strikethrough]] beside brains! I placed a small [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] piece of steel about the size of [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] a sewing needle ("No 5 Sharps") which [[strikethrough]] b[[?]] [[/strikethrough]] turns very [[strikethrough]] magically [[/strikethrough]] much like magic on a "needle point" pointing according to Nature's laws on my compass tripod. That little piece of steel was [[underlined]] true [[/underlined]] as steel. It told us we were human - that "the son[[guess]] is human" - Here are four Innuits that had travelled this route times & again & who were excellent guides in ordinary circumstances & yet they were 90 degrees out of the proper course. Needle said so - & so it proved. As I declared to them the direction to the Vessel, some shook their heads. But Ebirnbiny who has seen me use this needle before, was not of that number. Though he was positive as to route to the vessel before I announced what the needle said. Yet on my statement, he started off as I directed Half an hour before reaching Vessel the gale lulled. We arrived on board the "G. Henry" 13 [[?]] 1 - 38 - 4 - 38 = R. H. Time, 1 X o'clock P.M. having been absent only 22h - 38m (See Comp. Oho. List) [[wavy line across page]] [[strikethrough]] G. H. [[/strikethrough]] 14h 41°[[?]] R.S 2 - 08 - 20.5 S.H. 1 - 56 - 00 ________________ 12 - 20.5 Orig. in No 2 p [[encircled]] 5 [[/encircled]] of orig notes Hall Sep 11/63 [[end page]] [[start page]] The novel & Innuit way of the treatment of dogs! The [[strikethrough]] clawed [[/strikethrough]] "Throating" process with cord! The immediate remedy! The [[strikethrough]] an [[/strikethrough]] stoppage of Knmmuti[[?]] as about to make hard passage through "Bayard Taylor Pass" to cover the load with water proof covering The Innuit ladies on the lee side of Seal Skins!