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(6 1861 Aug 9th Fri 1st Enc. Tuk-oo-li-too is indeed a noble woman. [[underlined]] She hath been kind to me. [[/underlined]] Kindness begetteth friends. She is Kind to all. I know not who is not a friend to her. Before leaving however this morn the Tupik of E. & T. I wrote a letter to Capt. B. requesting that they should hand it to him when they removed to the Innuit village near the vessel. From ship to Whale Island & also from Whale Island out, into the Bay encountered much ice this Morning that the wind & Tide had driven & drifted in from Davis Strait. By V. chro (14 minutes past XII Merid. the men of the crew had shot 1 Duck - had seen 3 seals at wh. they made 6 shots. By the by, 1/2 an hour after leaving Whale Island one of the crew raised a sail coming from the ship. I could not devise what it meant - thought it possible that I had forgotten something & that Capt B. was sending the same to [[end page]] [[start page]] (7 1861 Aug 9 Fri 1st Enc Lupton Strait me. Near lower end of "Look-out" Island I made following Obs. while ship's Boat was approaching, we laying to till it came up. Large Sex Index Er -1'-30" h m s | Alt. [[circumpunct]] Sea horizon 1-20-30 | 30°-51'-00" 1-22-50 | 31 05 45 Height of Eye above Sea 3 feet [[circumpunct]] S.Di 15'-49".1 Dec. 15°-48'-31.2 N. (-43".75 per h) Eq (add) m5-s13.65 | s 0.357 At h8-m40 AM R.H.T. the boat came up along side. It was manned with Innuits "Sharkey", "Jim Crow" & "trundle bed Innuits". They brought Tu-nuk-de-lier's Neis-suk (civilization bonnet) wh. she had forgotten. They were on their way across the Bay however, for a Took-too hunt. As they said they should return to-night or to-morrow, I wrote Note No 2 to Capt. B. & sent it by Sharkey. At hV-m30 (Chro) made an Island bet.
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