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(12) 1861 Aug 13 Tues. 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 [[end page]] [[start page]] (13 1861 Aug 13 Tues 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