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(10 1861 Sept 1st + [[symbol: Cross]] saw that I was determined in finding the river & making Enc. by it. I felt that I now had a crew I could manage - a lady crew - & I felt to try my best. I succeeded admirably as will be seen. Having now but ladies to [[strikethrough]] manage [[/strikethrough]] direct save lazy Kood-loo I told them Ag-gi! (NO!), on their solicitation to pull back to where the other Boat had just put in. [[underlined]] [[?'A-chuof']] [[/underlined]] wh. signifies Work away - [[underlined]] pull ahead [[/underlined]] &c brought them to their working senses. I was bound to go to extreme Frobisher Bay W. or N.W. side this day (D.V.) & if possible make my 15th Enc. My triumph. They work with a will. Soon as I landed wh. was attended with great difficulty the incline of the Sand & mud bottom being so gradual. No one with me could tell any thing about where the river was. No one of the crew had been to Ag-goun. Even [[underlined]] "Su-sy" (Koo-ou-le-arny) who was born where Koo-jes-se killed the big rein-deer day of my arrival Head [[/underlined]] [[end page]] [[start page]] (11 1861 Sept 1st + [[symbol: Cross]] 15th Enc. 24th Day Out of Frobisher Bay. But I kept watching & watching - guiding Boat in such direction as I thought would lead to the desirable point. Before getting fairly to the landing place, we saw a large Ook-gook that came up near the stern of the Boat wh. gave almost a breaching leap & disappeared making the water "suds" where he plunged & the whole space around resound with the noise it made. At length, I saw stretching away N.W. a narrow space of water, quiet & like a mirror. I thought that the entrance to the river must be there so I made for it crossed its mouth & landed on its Eastern side. It occured to me as we landed & walked over the ground leading to the grassy plot on wh. we are that we must be getting to the [[underlined]] land of Civilization [[/underlined]] - for Mud was becoming very abundant! Rich, black mud tho' veneered over the top with fine white sand.