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[[encircled]] 2 [[/encircled]] [[boxed]] 1861 Aug. 24 Sat. 12th Enc. 16th Day out [[/boxed]] This Noon ^[[(or rather AM)]] the natives of the other Boat landed at the spot which we are & have erected their tupiks around us. It seems our position is the best - the very best that can be. quite an excitement this A.M. at 2 successive times. I was in tupik writing when a noise came to my ears as if the town was afire. Koo-per-neu-ung & Allokee were in same tupik with me having a chat to-gether. I asked K. what it meant? He said: 'a rat!' I went out & found a Doz. Innuits with clubs & stones around a huge pile of rocks ready for battle with rat (?) or whatever it might be, - finally a [[strikethrough]] m[[?]]se [[/strikethrough]] mouse or mole [[in blue]] ^[[ [[underlined]] ("leming") [[/underlined]] ]] [[/in blue]] was frightened from its hiding place & killed. I thought of an old saw[[guess]]:- Scar! Moates[[guess]] tremunt[[guess]] gigantus musculus! - Behold! The mountains tremble - a little mouse is born! In this case the mountains did not tremble for there are none here to - but a little mouse was killed! Not long after another of the same sort of exciting time occurred, & another mouse (both of very fine fur) was killed. [[end page]] [[start page]] [[encircled]] 3 [[/encircled]] [[boxed]] 1861 Aug. 24 Sat. 12th Enc. 16th Day out [[/boxed]] [Oo-Ki-tum, ^[[(name from Oo-Kong - [[underlined]] the tongue [[/underlined]]) ]] Koo-per-neu-ung noo-li-an-a, has skinned the pretty little animals & given them (the skins) to me to take home to America. I asked Twee-oon ("Susy) if Innuits eat these? She said with a rosy face "Smelley". I wish to be out [[strikethrough]] looking & [[/strikethrough]] exploring this beautiful portion of God's beautiful Earth, but I must delay a few days till I do up some work on hand - working up Obs. & writing. Koojesse has gone took-too-ing to-day. Koo-per-neu-ung has taken Ki-a of one of the other party & gone sealing - while Kood-loo remains out, since his departure from the Boat yesterday morn, took-too-ing. The lady folk are busy dressing skins & doing other work falling to their lot. This P.M. Twer-oon, ^[[one of]] the noble Innuit ^[[women]] of the North has been drawing in our tupik a rough sketch of King-gaite, the Islands at termination of it near "Resolution" Island, & the N. shore Hudson's Strait. Allokee, the Se-Ko Se-lar Innuit is now sketching the coast above & below Seko-Selar, also Seko-se lar itself. Every 1/2 minute he punches me with the pencil I have given