Viewing page 208 of 661

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

10)
1861 Aug 13 Tues

that come upon us in our course.  Now down now-up - then a cross wave taking us broad side almost overturning the frail craft on wh. our all was staked.  No fool's job to manage a Boat in such as we experienced to-day. 
I noticed this peculiarity to-day that from Oo-pung-ne-wing (our 3d Encampment) (Island where Annewa was last winter with his Innuit friends} to this place Toong-wine (our 4th Place of encampment) snow from the mountains is off.
In Rescue Bay (the mountains around it) & thence to Oo-pung-ne-wing much snow still remains.
another feature is that the land on North side Frobisher Bay as I proceed up grows less & less mountainous.  The appearance now is that I shall find new head of this Bay N.E. side low land compared with much that is along toward the entrance.
I had in my hand much of the time to-day as we Coasted along the British Admiralty Chart in wh. a delineation of the coast of Frobisher Bay has been attempted.  No recognizable feature in it.  The man who [[underlined]] guessed [[/underlined]] at it 

[[end page]]
[[start page]]

(11
1861 Aug 13 Tues.

made a failure out & out.
Were it not for the evidence I have succeeded in obtaining here North, I should ever have doubted that Frobisher & his fleet were ever in what I now denominate as Frobisher Bay.  The evidence of Sunday P.M. when I discovered what I did on the Island Ni-youn-te-lik Co-joined with the Oral history accumulated from the Innuits puts all beyond farther doubts.
The arrangement I made this Morning with my Innuit crew was that if they would proceede quickly as possible to head of this Bay I would there stop as long as it would be prudent - & that I would allow them ample time to go Took-tooing as well as same in returning.
Therefore there has been but little to-day of the delay of the preceeding ones from Sealing & ducking.  Many Seals seen & Ducks also.  Koo-jes-se fired at one seal - missed.  Many ducks flew passed us.
I was interested in the close imitation the Innuits make with their voices to the cry of young ducks thus causing the Ducks to circle around