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afflictive one - [[underlined]] very much so. [[/underlined]]
At hVII-m30 P.M. the wind increased to a gale.  Now it is sweeping over us bringing moist snow.  I was fortunate in my decision to turn back as I did when on my trip to Frobisher's Gulph.

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AM  27°  N.  Gale with snow
M  27°  N  Strong but moderating Gale broke at XI-00 A.M.
P.M.  28  N.W.  Light (Thick Clouds)

Through the night, one of the usual gales of the North prevailed careering the "George Henry" at times that one would have rolled from his birth were it not for the side-board that held him in.
Capt. B. said to me this Morning that had I continued on in my attempts to reach Oo-pung-ne-wing & the other places about there that I certainly would have failed in them - & as he thinks, would never have got

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back, at least, not in time to have gone home in the "George Henry".
How thankful that I am back!
I should in justice to Capt. B. make this record of his opinion about my going on the last trip.  About the day of my starting he came to the conclusion that I was undertaking too great a risk.  At 1st he thought it might be done, but on considering the lateness of the Season - the exposed Coast in Frobisher Gulph along wh. I must pass - the bad weather that I must have nearly all the time that I expected to be absent, he concluded that I had better give it up.  He said that if I went & did not return, that all blame would be thrown upon him.  I labored to show him (Capt. B.) how unjust such imputation cast upon him would be - that I - & [[underlined]] I alone [[/underlined]] was responsible for this act of going on