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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 

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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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