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July 
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the foxes several weeks ago.  These were left on the flow where we [[strikethrough]] left [[/strikethrough]] made it from Lupton Strait.  The ice we found very much changed since yesterday morning when we passed over it.  We broke through in many places.  It is the last sledge journey that can be made this season on Rescue Bay.
While coming from Lupton Strait when under full sail, Smith raised ^[[to mast head]] the "waif" as signal to Capt. B. to send off Kood-loo.
Before getting to the vessel, we were all very much fatigued.  The dogs worked nobly but we had to help them about every 5 steps.  Occasionally sledge broke through thus delaying us far beyond the time we would have made had it been good travelling. Kood-loo during the latter part of the way went ahead with his oo-nan to pick out a passable safe route.
Arrived at Vessel (h12-m40 4-40) h8 PM R.H.T.  Capt. B. asked [[underlined]] 'What News'? [[/underlined]] I told him with sad heart.  If ever there was a disappointed, heart-stricken man, he was Capt. G.O. Budington.  It was too bad. It overwhelmed him with grief - with [[underlined]] incontrolable anguish. [[/underlined]]
Before we retired for the night, he told me that he had watched us with this "spy" long before we got near the vessel - that he then read in our drooping heads what was the probable News that awaited him relative to the success or non success in Whaling labour.  Two days before we got to Whale depot, Ankoot's boy was started off over land toward Rescue Bay with letter to Capt. B. giving him account of ^[[the]] bad success.  The boy gave out & returned when Rogers hired Ankoot himself who started off the morning of the day we left the vessel. We expected to find that he had arrived & with the letter, but on getting here found that he had not - & that the evident reason was that the ice would not admit of his crossing the Bay.
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Compared Chro. short time after arriving from Budingtonville
13h  m  bts(?
1 - 52 - 93 Rescue's
1-  48 - 00 G.H.'s
Difference = 14-46.5
Thursday, July 25th 1861
AM
M
PM
A Meridional observation on Whale Isld gave [[symbol: Sun]'s Altitude | 93-00-00
Sub. (Large Sex) Indes er | 1-30
- | 2)92-58-30
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46-29-15
[[symbol: Sun]]'s Semi D. 15-47.2  
Px 6 | 15' -53"
- | 46-45-08
Refraction | -53

- | 46-44-15
- | 90-00-00
- | 43-15-45
Add Dec. | 19-35-20
Lat. N. | 62-51-05
[[boxed]] 19[[degree symbol -37[[feet symbol]] -42.5[[inch symbol]] Dec. 
     2-22.5
19 -35 -20.0
per h
32.90
    4 1/d
3150
1097
69)142.57/2
120
22 [[/boxed]]
The difference of 1 mile ^[[or nearly]] short of real Lat. caused by some defect in Artificial Horizon.  [[Sand?]] between edge of glass & side of basin.
P.M. Observations for Time &c.
hVII-m59-s00 | 71[[degree symbol]] -15[[feet symbol]]
VIII-01-22 | 70-45
      2-45 |    30
      4-00 |    15
      5-12 | 70-00
      6-25 | 69-45
VIII- 8-30 [[symbol: Sun]] Left Limb to George T. Jones Tower 81[[degree symbol]] -06[[feet symbol]] -30[[inch symbol]]
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