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Tuk-too.  I told Tuk-oo-li-too what I desired & that she must get herself in readiness quick as possible as a flow was coming fast down the Bay which in all likelihood would block up all passage in getting back if we were not soon away.  Five minutes found her in the boat, also little Oo-kood-lear.  Have spent most of the day on "Vocabulary" & learning her to read in the "Progressive Reader" wh. I presented to her last Winter.
As she read in said book I asked her to interpret it into Innuit wh. she done expiditiously & is one well qualified.
O, that such a noble, Christianizing Work were begun here as is now established in Greenland.  What a valuable aid to it could be found in Tuk-oo-li-too.  Will there not be some society - some people of civilization that will see to this matter, see this noble race pass away?

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I must now be active in preparations for my excursion to head of Frobisher Bay.
In three or four days the vessel will leave here to cruise in said Bay for Whales.  I am to go from here with a crew of natives.  My crew will consist of Ebierbing & Tuk-oo-li-too Kood-loo & his wife.  The aunt of E. & T. ("Suzhy) & probably "Yennu" the sister of Ebierbing.  Kood-loo has two children who must go also - perhaps Oo Koodlear must go too.  Capt. B. offers anything & everything that he has that I think I shall need to add to the successful prosecution of the Work before me.  I expect to be gone two months.  At the end of that time I & crew return here where I am to meet the vessel.
Ebierbing will be here with the boat that I shall make this voyage in (Deo Volente) by 1st of Aug.  Gardiner & Lamb with their 

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