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to make progress - & apparently much heavier on ahead of us - we concluded to turn our course & strike S.W. using the wind wh. was favorable to the latter course.  Sail being made, away we sped at a capital rate, occasionally ploughing through thick "sludge"-porridge of ice water - that served greatly to deaden the speed.
At hXI-00 AM (or a few minutes before) we reached the land where the Winter passage is made in going to Frobisher Bay.  A few minutes were spent here in deciding who of the party would accompany me in my tramp to the Mountain top.  All but one seemed reluctant to undertake it (I wanted only one)  [[underlined]] The one [[/underlined]] I shall ever remember for he seemed rather anxious than otherwise to be my attendant.  I here give his name:  Shev-ek-Koo, an Innuit that I like the more I see of him.  The remainder of the crew were to remain with the Boat - & allowed to take it if they chose & proceede sealing & ducking.
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my red-figured cotton handkerchief suspended thereon enclosing a complement of fractured sea-bread & a slice of boiled pork for refreshment - & in my other Capt. B's spy, I & Shev-ek-koo started.  The 1st one fourth mile was over a plain of fresh water ice that had been formed by springs bubbling up & diffusing their waters over the plain adjoining the Coast of Rescue Bay.  This passed, we commenced our ascent of a rugged hill that laid between us & the mountain proper that I desired to visit.  A few minutes walk up this incline decided [[underlined]] what kind of Work [[/underlined]] we had before us for the next two or 3 hours.  I started from the Boat with my took-too jacket & pants on.  Climbing rough rocks covered with soft, treacherous snow created a heat that began to be of a [[underlined]] boiling [[/underlined]] nature.  I therefore decided to divest myself of said jacket & pants reserving only my civilization dress.  I knew when I reached the top of the mountain I should need them again;  but I concluded the backing of them would be an additional task therefore, decided