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(5 1861 Aug. 15 Thurs. Peak of Mt. Bet. Beauty Bay & Latitude Bay 161° Same Peak from wh. Ob. [[circumpunct]] bearing - 3 = 192 Point where I took last Lat. in LB. 194 Mark in Mt. of Cape ahead 356 Presidents Seat S. & Ed to Peak of Mt. Bet. B.B. & L.B. = 103°-45' Presidents Seat W & Nd to Mark in Mt Ahead 92°-35' Start XI-10 Stop [[?Seating]] to XI-30 XI-45 Course from when we took Koo-per-neu-ung aboard across (AC) the Bay to Island 44° Arrive where we too Koo-per-Neu-ung aboard who had gone on ahead of us by land route (gun in hand) from Point Bet B.B. & L.B. at X-53 At wh. time raised sail under a S E breeze that had a few minutes before sprung up & struck direct across a wide mouthed deep Bay I-05 Reached opposite side Bay at rate of 5 Knots per hour where we spent 1/2 hour ducking & then went into our 6th Encampment. On an Island ^[[(Tin-ne-took-a-yarr)]] by the Channel through wh. we have to pass on going up the Bay. [[note]] Land Aft beam at low tide. [[/note]] We should have passed on for an hour longer had it [[end page]] [[start page]] (6 1861 Aug 15 Thurs not been for low tide. The usual channel though wh. Innuits pass in going from here up the Bay was dry land when we reached it. A pleasing incident & a joke. From the Point where we took Koo-per-neu-ung aboard the land this side looked continuous running far out into Frobisher Bay near to Ki-Ki-tuk-ju-a - in fact seemed to be joined to it. I had the position of Boat Steerer in crossing this last Bay & directed to a Place in the land pointed out to me by Koo-jesse. The breeze we had in crossing was the first fine & favorable one had since leaving "George Henry". Some of the distance the latter part of it made at rate 10 Knots per hour. Arriving to entrance to channel I asked Koo-jesse if we had not better use this fine breeze in going on as far as possible to-night? There was twinkle in his eye when he said: Well, if you say so we'll try it. The old [[?saw]] came into mind 'Ther's nothing like trying,' so I doubted now we should succeede yet