Viewing page 342 of 661
This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.
(2) 1861 Sept 3 Tues 15th Enc. 26th Day out 3d Day 15 Enc a few small pieces Sea-bread in cold water - then added Molasses & ate it. But it did not go with the usual relish. Toward night, good Twer-oong came in to see me, bringing along the pretty China tea saucer heaping full of golden Salmon, smoking hot! The very sight of it made me better! This delicious eating, - or rather, the allowing it to melt in my mouth, - revived me wonderfully. I never in my life participated in any food that went better. It done me more good than any medicine could possibly have done. Only think of it. Here, among a people classed as of the uncivilized, unenlightened World, away up here in a new, before undiscovered Country, confined by sickness within a shelter that illy protects from rain storm - every thing dripping wet - & to be visited by a woman - a kind, noble-hearted woman, bearing in her hand a beautiful emblem of Civilization, overflowing with the most dainty but safe dish [[end page]] [[start page]] (3) 1861 Sep 3 Tues 15th Enc. 3d day 26th D out for a sick one the World knows of - boiled Salmon fresh from the river I had just discovered. Indeed, a good woman is an angel wherever she is - whether in Heaven or on Earth. This day's visit of Twer-oong will long live in my memory. God bless this Innuit - for the good deed done a white man to-day. By the by, when Twer-oong brought me the saucer of Salmon, her winga was by me. I asked him if he caught it with a hook? He said: 'Ag-gi' (No) but [[underlined]] shot it! [[/underlined]] An hour after Meridian, Koo-per-neu-ung brought down the Ook-gook he shot yesterday near the Falls. (He towed it down with Ki-a). It is a fine one. As the men Innuits drew it upon the grassy knoll where is our Tupik, I crawled out to see & measure it. [[underlined]] Nine feet long & 6 feet in circumference. [[/underlined]] Enveloped in Ook-sook (blubber) [[underlined]] 1 1/2 to 2 inch thick. [[/underlined]]
