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who was sitting in the Aft Cabin talking with me of the effect it had upon him - & what he felt coming on.  No sooner were the words out of his mouth than he sprang forward like a Wild man.  Fortunately his companions were prepared for him who seized & pinioned him upon a sea-chest.  It seems he's subject to such attacks - had a fit of same character while I was gone on my voyage up tot he Head Frobisher Bay.
To-night glorious - not a cloud to be seen - sky bright & studded with flashing gold dust.  The Moon now walks majestically up the Azure vault sending down her beauteous smiles as if she was willing to be admired - & Courted for her good looks.  What is a woman without somebody - without [[underlined]] man [[/underlined]] to love her thus making her beam forth in loveliness?  What would the Moon be Without the Sun?
The blubber of the Whale not yet all in.  I have just been on deck.  The gasses generating in the huge carcass & escaping, make noises like the frizzling (?) of Steam boilers just after the fires are raked out & engine ceased to work.  Though whale was killed Thursday & has been in sea water at sea ice temperature ever since yet heat within now blood hot.
The meat of the Whale putrefies in cold weather much sooner than in hot.  How is this?  Such is a fact well known to Whalers.
I heard a story (said to be [[underlined]] fact) [[/underlined]] to-day of an Irishman who was on his 1st whaling voyage up here (a green hand), on seeing a Whale breaching near the Boat in wh. he was pulling exclaimed: 'Och! - & by faith & by jabbers what an ear that fellow's got!'  Son of Errin's eye had caught full & fair view of one of the 

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Whales [[underlined]] fins [[/underlined]] wh. he took to be one of its ears!
The Whale has no external ear that is visible, - thus the [[underlined]] honest mistake [[/underlined]] makes a rich joke.
Ar-tark-pa-ru & another old Innuit say that if the "George Henry" will go down the channel bet. this Bay & the other (Frobisher's) it can then proceede in safty to Kin-gaite side & thence out to Sea without danger from the pack.  The truth is it would be running terrible risk to attempt to take a sailing vessel through Lupton Channel without a propeller to tow her - even then the dangers would be very great.
Measurement of Whale to-day
"[[underlined]] Cow- [[/underlined]] Whale" captured Oct 17th - raised & made fast by Boat's crew commanded by Robt. Smith & Lanced by Rogers
Length lip 18 feet
Width of " [[ditto for: lip]] 6 measuring down to centre jaw bone
Around larger part of body  38 feet
Length of Whale  56 " [[ditto for: feet]]
" [[ditto for: Length]] Throat piece  18 " [[ditto for: feet]]
" [[ditto for: Length]] Fin  10 " [[ditto for: feet]] from Extreme to Ex bone (Ball)