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1861 Oct 4 Fri

Yesterday I gave my took-too stockings & seal skin Boot (native feet gear) to Kokerjaber & Koo-ter-ne-ung, 1 pr of sock to each, to have put in order for my trip.
A fact beyond all question that the natives' clothing - dresses are the only kind fit for any one in these regions.
The native dress to keep them [[underlined]] warm [[/underlined]] while we in the States depend in Winter upon stoves, furnaces & the like.  In an Innuit suit, during the coldest weather here, I can keep warm - in or out of Igloo (snow hut) while with all the civilization clothes I can get around & pile upon me, I cannot but feel as tho' I was being turned into ice.  All the ship's crews adopt the Innuit gear for the feet as soon as they arrive in the country.  If they did not, the result would soon be more frozen feet than 1/2 doz. Surgeons could attend to.
Innuits live in admirable correspondence (relation to very many of their customs to the country they

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1861 Oct 4 Fri

inhabit.  White men if they would [[underlined]] live here [[/underlined]] any considerable length of time, must adopt in a great measure these customs - or [[underlined]] die. [[/underlined]]
This eve, at VI-00, Thermometer down to 15°-17° below freezing point!  This is quite a change from what it was at 12 (Meridian) then standing 33° - Wind at 12 S.W. - one hour after, N.W. when it (Therm.) commenced falling - now being down to point indicated.  A [[underlined]] cold, stormy [[/underlined]] time of it do I expect on my Boat trip - but nevertheless, [[underlined]] I must make it - & will [[/underlined]] God helping.