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Puto has been in our Tupik to-day cutting out jacket for Koo-per-neu-ung's wife.  The skins are of fresh water seal  tho' shot in sea water the seals called by Innuits Kuf-se-gear.  These skins make fine looking dresses.
Koo-pung, noo-loo-an-a of Alloke, both of Se-ko-se-lah, came & brought me a huge rein-deer tongue (cooked) this P.M.  While here, I made a return present of some [[?Su-pung-ers]] (beads) with wh. she was perfectly delighted.  Twer-oong "Susy" the noble Innuit woman who hath one foot in Heaven (I hope) while one is upon Earth - sick Susy - was visiting me at the time Koo-munk brought her present.  As I passed my present of beads to Koo-munk I asked Twer-oon if she had any?  She said those I had given her several weeks ago were all gone & had given them to the Ang-e-koo for his services in her sickness!  I selected a variety of 

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colored beads & gave them to her.  As I returned the remainder to my little tin trunk in wh. I keep my documents & a few other precious things my eye rested on my Bible.  I took it out & held it up before Twer-oong & Koo-mung saying: that [[underlined]] that [[/underlined]] talked to me about [[underlined]] Kud-le-per-me-un. [[/underlined]]  If a flash of lightning had come down into Tupik with all its blaze, it could not have had a more sudden effect than [[strikethrough]] it did [[/strikethrough]] what I said & showed to them.  At 1st looks of affright - then followed by smiles of great joy upon their countenances.  I never will forget that moment.  Twer-oon was sitting by my side on my took-too bed which is spread upon the ground drawing a sketch of the N. side Hudson's Strait for me while Koo-munk was lying on the grass at the entrance to the Tu-pik her head just within facing us.  They both started up, simultaneous with the finishing of my remark & the exhibition of that wh I said [[underlined]] talked to me [[/underlined]]