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1861 Aug 20 Tues
9th Enc. 2d day [[strikethrough]] 40 [[/strikethrough]] Day

on a small Island near Niountelik by a few white men.
The coal I have show her - says it is just like what is at Niountelik.  
It pained me to see this noble hearted creature passing away as she is.  A few weeks & she will be numbered with the dead.  I deplore in seeing this people growing less so fast - many deaths to one birth.  I know of but one birth among this people since coming among them - but I do know of many deaths.
I asked Allokei about whales at Seko Selar.  Says that at a place he called [[space]] that they were very numerous - a great many there.  I asked him about the 3 Oo-miens that are expected from Seko Selar this season.  He said they would probably arrive next month.
The Innuits have seen no whales in this Bay since leaving Og-bin-sier-o-ping.
They have been opening their Took-too & Seal skins to-day & airing them.  At night they had them all rolled up in compact bundles & stowed away in their boat ready for starting tomorrow [[?ing]] if fair.  I am greatly astonished at the large number of skins they have.  They must have been on a continued feast since leaving Budingtonville

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1861 20th Aug 20th 
9th Enc. 12th Day 
1861 Aug 20 Tues
2d Day at 9th Enc

Meridian Obs. at Cape 9th Encampment
Index Error -1'-45"
The horizon rocking by the wind!
How amazing! H.

h m s | -
4-40-12 | 77°-16'-00"
  43-40 | 77-22-45
  46-33 |    25-15
  51-20 |    28-00
  55-40 |    29-15
  58-30 |    30-45
V-00-40 |    31-00
  03-30 |    28-45 (?) = not good
   6-28 |    28-45 
   8-25 | (not good)  Imperfections I fear in all, yet the Mean will be an approximation to correctness.
  17-20 | 77°-07'  The Artificial Horizon gives me much trouble.  Errors existing they must come from this source. H.
  21-16 | 77-03
  23-31 | 77-01