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13th Encamp  21st Day Out

He pointed toward a long Island out of regular course across the Bay.  I told him I wished & expected to go direct to the opposite side of Bay from our last (12th) Enc. - to go to Ag-goun.  He replied: 'We could not get there as tide would be low for Boat before arriving there!  [[underlined]] I think differently. [[/underlined]]  I tell him I wish to go there & spend a day or two there.  He seemed not disposed to please me.  Said that I could see head of Bay from point where he desired to go.  I answered.  That would not do - that [[underlined]] I must go there [[/underlined]] - that if he would like to go to the point indicated & spend the night [[underlined]] all right; [[/underlined]] but to-morrow, if pleasant I must have him & Co go with me with Boat to the extreme of the W. side Frobisher Bay.  He then said he would then go with me, tho' he appears to think it useless as long as I could see the head of F. Bay from the point he wanted to go.
Although I intended on leaving "George Henry" to return same side Frobisher Bay as I should proceed up on my voyage to head of it yet I have been 

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13 Enc  21st Day Out

thinking seriously of returning on opposite side - going down on Kin-gaite side.  Had I known this I should have made many other obs than I have of some part of the coast just over - but on the whole though I intended finishing up on same side going back yet I believe it my duty to go back on Kin-gaite side as low down as Ki-Ki-tuk-ju-a No.1 wh. is a long, high Island opposite or nearly so, of the place where I - [[?Kokemjabin]] & Sterry found Koo-choo-[[?an chur]] & friends last winter.
I have imperfectly explored coast on N.E. side but still accurately enough that the civilized world can gain some approximate idea of the general situation of Frobisher Bay.
At least they of Civilization [[underlined]] will no longer entertain the opinion that these waters are a strait! [[/underlined]]
At hIX-m00 Chro. commenced entering a channel.  The coast on each side steep