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till coming quite close to.
"Iron Island" was an interesting point of my visit.  I so name it from its exact appearance to Oxydized Iron - the rocks mostly of the Island having that appearance.  There are Innuit monumental marks made of the huge bones of the Whale on this Island.
God hath blessed us - blesses us daily - constantly.  On this Island Koo-per-neu-yung found an excellent piece of timber (live oak) wh. probably belonged to the wrecked "Traveller" the Eng Whaler wrecked 5 years ago near Og-ben-sin-o-ping.  It was dry & of size as big & heavy as K. could manage.
He asked me if we should take it along in the Boat?  Of course I desired as much as one could for cooking purposes.  I took & sawed off a piece on arriving here for cooking our supper.  It was perfectly sound - [[underlined]] sound as ever. [[/underlined]]  Wood does not rot up in this region.  We had a firm breeze spring up from S.W. just before making Toong-wine on wh. we made sail & proceeded into the 

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Town (?) of 3 tupiks & a Doz Innuits mostly old women & children.  Short time before turning into the harbor one of my company saw an "Inuit" on the height of a point of land who looked in the distance small as a pigmy.  Koo-per-neu-ung cried out Innuit wh. of course drew our Mention at once.
We expected to find Innuits at this place.  Koo-Phe-ar-chu ("Sampson") with his family Ook-juke-al-lo & his (who it will be recollected are late from Selzo Island) - as well as find many others.
But Koo-choo-ar-cho & family are gone with others Took-too-ing.
We run into harbor in fine style - the natives of the place all out (save Ook-juk-ol-loo) on the rocks awaiting our arrival.  I cried out before we touched landing:  Chi-mo!  This brought out hearty responses from them.  We made landing & proceeded at once to unload the boat while the ladies of my crew proceeded at once as is usual to errect our tents having 2 for the Company.  The natives of the place continued around us in whatsoever we done;  such as were able, took bold & assisted in various work - particularly in the cooking department.  All the natives here met when up this way last Winter.  The extent of my visit was