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1861 Aug 9 Fri
1st Enc 1 Day out

Parker's Bay & French Head.  The Island entirely of rock without a particle of vegetation on it.  Stopped here for 1/2 hour.

Started VI-00 (h4-m46) hI-14 PM RH.T.
VI-45 Rounding the Point near French Head.  The memory of last winter's incident vivid in mind.  Same Iceberg tho but remnant there still.
The breeze with wh. we started did not continue for long.  "White Ash" had to do the work as indeed has it been the [[?almost]] only resource by wh. we have got where we are.
Thick - thick - impenetrable fog has hung around us all the P.M. till we entered Lupton Strait when it began to lift its Pall.  The Boat Company was in constant use for hours not being able to see the land tho but little way from it.

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1861 Aug 9 Fri
1st Enc Lupton Strait

IX-30 Chro Koo-per neu-ung tries my rifle at a long distance, at a Seal.  Kills it.  The excitement in pulling to it.  The catching & holding it up at the Boat's side.  The crimsoning of the waters all around.  The feast of the Duck - the raw Seal Feast.  Much ice & flows of it as we approach Lupton Straits.  The doubts of some of the men of the G.H. about our being able to get through.  Stop at ice-berg Tu-nuk-der-lin mounts it.
Arrive entrance Lupton Strait hXI-m30 Chro  Tide running into Rescue Bay - boiling, seething whirl-pools &c.
After using "Ash breeze" ("15 minutes") fine breeze from N.E. sprung up releasing all from the tedious work of the day.  As we got fairly midway of the Strait 

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