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(8) 1861 Aug 23 Fri Stop 3-40 | The other boat is this moment pulling oars for a seal just shot. Great excitement there. Start 3-48 (7) | Now crossing Deep Bay - to an Island IV-10 (7) | The land at our right low & smooth covered with grass. Koo-jes-se is in ecstacy - says capital place for Took-too. - | V-25 Arrive even with beginning Island. By the Coast - by the waters edge perpendicular rocks, not high [[?whi]] their tops are covered with grass. - | Old mountains of rock now crumbled & grass! Ducks numerous - Innuits up with guns! hV-m00 | Must be near the head of Frobisher Bay - Can hear the roar of a Big river ! Stop V-07 Seals Start V-12 (7) Stop V-30 | Seals around us very numerous - stop at a point to land Koo-per-neu-ung & Kood-loo [[end page]] [[start page]] (9 1861 Aug 23 Fri Bearing of last Cape 160° Start (V-38) V-08 (6) | hV-m55 land Koo-jes-se - all men Innuits now took-too-ing. So it goes with Innuits! As independent as perfect freedom can make them. Stop hV-m55 [[note]] See original [[/note]] | Bearing of last Cape before reaching Isd. = 160° - | Bearing of Point where left Koo-per-neu-ung - | Bay 1 mile deep from the Course across this last = 170° - | The flats here where Koo-jes-se landed - Start VI-50 (8) | hVI-m55, three guns! Now glorious weather. Sea a mirror - under oars - 3 of my crew & little Su-Kong. The hi-pung-er Boat of Innuits on larboard side mile off going same direction. [[note]] *)V-08 should undoubted be V-38 H. NY Apr 12/64) [[/note]]