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1861 Oct 26 Sat a small quantity stone coal aboard, but her decks & rib timber of excellent stuff for fuel. I was the last one who visited that wreck eve it drifted out of Bay into Davis Straits. On that visit I obtained several buckets of coal wh. answered for cooking many a soup while making my stay on Whale Island with Ebierbing & Tuk-oo-li-too. IX-00 AM Wind around N.E. bringing snow storm. Ther. 8° this morning Ship's Company engaged hoisting in jaw-bone of the Whale last obtained. The object, [[underlined]] fuel! [[/underlined]] While drawing this up, the tongue, greatest part of it in view (a portion has been taken by the Innuits) I said to Capt. B.: the Blubber of that (the tongue) will answer for fuel too if we need it - a radiator can be easily made of sheet iron to suspend over a long flame & thus a sufficient heat can be diffused through the cabin to make it comfortable. I boiled a piece of Whale skin this morning - & eat it. On boiling 15 minutes it was tender - after that it seemed to grow tough & hard. Just enough cooking makes it good eating - too much, give it Bull Beef texture! The Rabbit-pie for dinner to-day excellent. Compared Chro's Rescue's = hVI-m12-s00 G.H.'s = V-54-06.5 (13/2 R's fast on GH m17-s53.5 [[checkmark]] [[end page]] [[start page]] + [[Sunday]] Oct. 27th 1861 AM 14° N.W. - Light - Cloudy (Snow through the night) M 14° N W " [[ditto for: Light]] Fair PM 11 N W " [[ditto for: Light]] [[underlined]] Fine [[/underlined]] The Innuits to-day have been off sealing & hunting. Sharkey presented Capt. B. to-night Ducks. Miner exchanged 5 Ducks for a seal knife. Other Innuits gave 4 Partridges so that we have enough game for a Capital dinner all around to-morrow. Ducks shot from Ki-a in the small water opening below. Meridional Ob. Ther. 14° Artificial Horizon 27°-55'30" - 2-00 [[??]] [[line]] 2)27-53-30 [[strikethrough]] 16-17 [[/strikethrough]] [[line]] 13-56-45 [[symbol: Moon]]'s SD & P +16-17 [[line]] 14-13-02 Refraction - 3-40 [[line]] 14-09-22 90-00-00 [[line]] 75-50-38 12-57-35 [[line]] Lat. N. 62°-54'-03" on. 34°-00" off -30-00 [[line]] 2)4-00 [[line]] -2-00" Index Error The Sun had began I fear to descend before I was in readiness. Will repeat the ob. next Fair day. D.C. S. 12°-52-56.9" 3-38.6 [[line]] 12-56- 35.5 [[line drawn connecting this value to earlier calculation above]] Dec per h 50.46 4 1/3 [[line]] 2)184 1682 [[line]] 60)278.66(3 180 [[line]] 38" [[underlined]] Vide [[/underlined]] Nov 4th/61