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1861 July 24 Wedns.

Rogers was carrying along over the rocks a jug of "Las-as-ses" (as the Innuits pronounce Molasses) toward his Boat in which he purposed to make his trip, when all once the jug's bottom dropped out & contents splashed down his hand flying up as if an electric shock from a strongly charged battery had been given him.  Here was a feast for the sweet tooth of many an Innuit.  Soon as it became poised about what an "ill wind" had [[?befel]] Rogers the spot sweetened over with the "Las-as-ses" was not unlike a eager hogs-head near a bee-hive on a warm sunny day.  
A few moments before starting, I made my way over to Koo-jes-se's tupik.  Saw him & his noo-loo-an-a, Tu-nuk-le-lier, talked with them awhile & then bid them "Te-bon-e-tie".  In the mean time the Boats were being launched from the Ice post to where they had been drawn up at high tide the evening before.
The tide was  now up & just beginning to ebb - just the time for us to have its aid in going up the straits of Lupton.  We took aboard several saddles of Venison, 1/2 Doz. braces 

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1861 July 24 Wedns.

of Ducks & the cask of Pork we had carried over.
As all were ready for a start I took AM observations for Time.  
(Pocket sex A. Hori. Budington ville)

h m
[[strikethrough]] XII-34-45 - 60°-05' [[/strikethrough]]
h m s
0-39-45  60°-05'
0-41-37      31
0-43-40      56-30"
0-46-17  61 -32-30
0-48-25  62 -01-30
[[/note]] By boat Compass S.W. entrance to Lupton Strait nearly South.
To bluff (over the land) at entrance from Rescue Bay to Bay reaching nearly to F. Bay S.E.
Ex. of point S. side entrance Lup. Strait S.W.  [[/note]]

Exactly at hOne-m13 by Chro on h8-m33 AM R.H.T. we were under way.  Rogers had started 1/2 an hour before, his course being up the Bay, N. by Compass, while ours was the reverse.  No wind to help us along - tho the weather fine.  At same moment we were under way the 2 Boats for cruising started out.  One under command of Lamb, the other of Gardiner.  By the by, the latter G. arrived at Budingtonville Midnight Sat & + [[symbol of cross denoting Sunday]] having experienced considerable trouble from the ice setting near the shore from French Head to entrance to Lupton Straits.