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(6) 1861 Aug 19 Mon 9th Enc. [[strikethrough]] 38 [[/strikethrough]] Day seals. Koo-jesse as is the usual way was approaching slowly. All at once the Ook-gook (or what was thought to be) commenced moving & so of what had the appearance of seals around. A slight turn of the supposed game gave all a sudden & different appearance. It was a whale boat with black gunwales filled with Innuits, men, women & child & the smaller seals proved to be 2 Innuits in their Ki-as one on each side of the Boat a little distance from it. I saw Koo-jes-se turn bow for stern quick as any Boat steerer could do it & the was at once ploughing water back again! After a while Koo-jes-se stopped awaiting the Boat & Kias to come up with him. Then he struck for the point where he saw me when I got aboard & away we came in racing order with the other Boat which proved to be "Minin" (Nep-er-che ar-Chum) his noo-loo-an-a "Susy" (Twee-oon) & a large number of accompanying Innuits. Poo-to-hee 1/2 white child was among the num [[end page]] [[start page]] (7 1861 Aug 19 Mon 9th Enc. [[strikethrough]] 38th [[/strikethrough]] Day Sin-Kong child of Twe-oon Yack [[space]] son of Al-lo-Kee Alloke & his noo loo ana Son of Koken jubin & his [[?looney]] small boy 3 feet high [[note]] See Aug 21 p.4 14 Innuits [[/note]] were the parties in this Company we met away up here in Frobisher Bay. At the stern of his Boat Nep-en-che-an chune had towing along an Ook-gook wh. he had shot to-day. These Innuits (all of them) are my old friends & acquaintances. They are spending the Summer up here Took-tooing. They have abundance of Took-too meat & skins. Say Took-too are arn-a-Su-ad-loo (in great abundance). The Took-too furs for next winter's clothing that they have with them show this. We are in camp together. Entered same little harbor on N side ([[?Az]] C.) of the Cape. the rain was pouring down as we came in. The landing place reminded me of the bustle at a steamboat landing in the States. As fast as things were taken out of the boats such as required to be kept dry were placed under the shelving of
