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1861 Aug 23 Fri

I feel at Home with the flag of my country as my companion & inspiring them.

Stop hIX-m55 Start X-00 (7) | IX-55 - Arrive to Point N by Com of the side opposite where we landed Koo-per-neu-ung & Kood-loo.  Where landed Koo-jes-se bears 185°
Stop X-30 (7) | The seal up by steering oars.  Now (that is from hX Chro to X-30) crossing another Bay 2 Miles deep Middle N.E. by C.
- | The other Boat & Natives are on a little Island 1/2 mile to the left Island Ar-nuk-u-garng.
- | I see they are now under way.
- | hX-m30  Arrive to Cape that with one this Morn makes big bay.
- | Peak of Ki-Ki-tuk-ju-a Az C.  174°
- | Of Cape that is at S (by C.) side of Bay just passed calling Whole One  170°
- | Ki (Ki-Ki-tuk-ju-a) to mark in Mt Left  44°-51'

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1861 Aug 23 Fri

- | To Cape just passed S by C of one now on  228°
Start hXI-m00 | The seal shot & speared by 
- | XI-10  The water alive with Salmon!  Completely breaching.  I as well as crew in ecstacy!
- | XI-19 Susy says [[underlined]] 'Tarrio nar-me!' [[note]] (Not sea water H.) [[/note]]  
Stop XI-45 | I am astounded!  She (Susy) takes a tin cup & reaches over the side of the Boat dips up some - drinks & hands to me - I drink - It is fresh water.  The river must be of great size - the tide coming in.
- | Stop XI-45 12th Enc:
- | Last Cape where we landed
- | The other boat coming up before we left.
- | From Innuit monument by River  174°
- | Ki-Ki-tuk-ju-a  172°

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