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go ovr to Kus-se-geer-ark-ju-a & obtain (if to be found) the relic there (one like the 3 I now have.)
By this plan if the ice should make so that the ship would have to leave before the Innuits got back with this relic, I would not be left here.  The relic could be retained here till an opportunity occured when it could be sent up to Northumberland Inlet & delivered either to one of the American or Eng. Whalers to transport Home to my address.  There is now a prospect of the ship's continuance here till the 20th the wind being veered Easterly bringing warmer air.  The Bay remaining open & whales continuing about here, the "George Henry" possibly may remain  till last of this month.  This would allow ample time to secure the sought relic of 1578.
XII-30 P.M.  Great as are my desires to secure the Relic so much desired by me in time to take it home with me, the case is a doubtful one.  The harbor all the Morning, has been filled with ice that Boats could not be pulled through it  The strong

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wind now prevailing from E.S.E. has broken up the ice in this Main Bay - & will probably clear the harbor of it yet.  Capt. B. may start in two or 3 days if Cold weather should again set in making ice so rapidly as in the last 3 or 4 days.  The Innuits will probably not consent for even very large pay to attempt this voyage.  Ugarny  & Ebierbing were short time since, of mind to take their families to Oo-Kood-lear & winter there but they have decided that they could not saftely round the Cape on the N. side at the entrance to this Bay therefore conclude to stop here.
To-day have seen something new to me!  Dough-nuts frying in [[underlined]] train [[/underlined]] (or lamp) oil!!  I have partaken of them & pronounced them first rate - & little "Tom Hood", cried for more!  These dough-nuts were fried in the trying kettles while they were filled with hot oil just from the blubber.  The steward was requested by one of the men attending to boiling the blubber (& frying Dough nuts in it) to see if a lot he had