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1861 Sept 15 [[symbol: Cross]]
19 Enc. Same as 9th 
38th Day out

shouting or howling till past midnight.  After continuing it for over 2 hours with a voice that makes the mountains about ring "Jack" now joins her.  Jack is an Angeko!  At midnight a round of guns! Koo-per-neu-ung was in same tupik as myself.  Some how he was taking a se-nik-too till the numerous guns roused him.  He sprung up & was but a moment in getting ready to join his people.  Soon Jack & howling wife made down from the hill where they were & marched around keeping up the same hideous noises so loud & broken that only throats of [[underlined]] brass & cracked at that [[/underlined]] - could make the same.  They kept marching around passing & repassing all the tupiks howling &c [[underlined]] like two devils! [[/underlined]]  
It is a painful sleepless night I am having - sick - in Bed - lam! - & racked with pain.  
A remarkable feature.  Mountains of Kin-gaite covered with snow while those on this side next the coast wholly destitute of it.  I felt the great difference in temperature (on arriving this side) bet. that of Kin-gaite side & this - this being much warmer.

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1861 Sept 15 [[symbol: Cross]]
19 Enc. Same as 9th 
38th Day out

Both parties on same spot as we encamped on 19th Aug.
Here we remained till Morning of the 21st.  My supper a taste of Coffee with Biscuit (sea-bread) & dried Took-too meat & a bite of Ood-noo.  I tried to make something taste good but failed.  [[underlined]] I eat to live. [[/underlined]]
I will here note what I think I failed to do in yesterday's record.  In skinning the Rein deer shot by Kooper-neu-ung on the Cape I noticed a greenish appearance about the legs & lower part of the body & said to Koo-jes-se that I thought the Took-too must have been sick.  He said 'No' - that the peculiar look was from the deer, having been swimming much of late in the cold water of this Bay.  One peculiar custom I find among the Innuits that I never read of.  When they kill a rein-deer after they have skinned it they proceede to cut off bits of different parts of the animal & bury said bits under a sod - under