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Private Journal CF Hall 4 pages in this day's Record Thursday Dec 12 1861 28.9 AM -18° N.W. Mod. Gale [[underlined]] Fine [[/underlined]] Snow flying 29.125 M -15° N W " " [[dittos for: Mod. Gale]] [[underlined]] Fine [[/underlined]] " [[ditto for: Snow flying]] 29.2 PM -10° N.W. Moderating [[underlined]] Fine [[/underlined]] Again delayed by the weather. The wind has been blowing in Gale some of the time during the night. Had there been but moderate wind should have started early this Morning. Thermometer being 50° below freezing point & a Gale from the direction I am to travel I think it better to delay longer. Soon as wind subsides shall start off making Oo-pung-ne-wing the stopping place to-night. I got up in the night - dressed - went on deck - went down on to the ice - faced the wind & travelled awhile. Every thing favorable but high wind wh. made the cold cut like a knife. I returned to vessel & turned in. I was about to call young Smith that he might go over & call up Annawa that they might get the dogs in readiness. But it is well I did not for the Gale has increased. [[end page]] [[start page]] Private Journal (2 1861 Dec 12th Thurs All hands aft called upon to go out a little distance in the Bay & get sledge load of ice from the Berg. I got an Innuit to go in my place giving him a plug of tobacco. Those fore the mast get their own ice for water, & Officers & met aft get theirs. One called upon by Mate Rogers did not respond. This one lives ashore or rather spends all his time ashore except [[underlined]] meal [[/underlined]] times. It is determined that if [[underlined]] Sterry [[/underlined]] (for that is his name) will not assist to get ice for use in making coffee & for other indispensible uses (of wh. he (S) shares with the rest) that he shall have no more. Sterry, by the by, has just as I wrote last lines comes & says to Capt B. that he went out as far as the small Island & having but one jacket on, found himself so cold that he was obliged to go to his Igloo & get another jacket. This saves his Coffee. Before broad day light, Twer-oong's approach was indicated by her peculiar cough. She gave as a reason for her early visit that she was very cold - nearly frozen in her Igloo. After warming her-self, she came in my aft cabin, passed up the 3 legged stool & took a seat beside my table. I suspect good Twer-oong thinks so much of a little Coffee & bread that this is the real reason of getting up thus early, walking from the Island to the vessel during a gale, Ther. 50° below freezing point! Of course, this kind soul was not disappointed when my breakfast of Whale, Coffee & Sea bread was brought in. I shared with her. Nothing taste so good to sick Twer-oong as Sea-bread & Coffee. While sick she does not relish Innuit fare. Tho' all those who went out to get ice had on native jackets & pants yet they were quite snow beaten when they came back. They were gone only about 35 minutes. A fact that nearly all the small Innuit boys & girls 'smoke' - the foremen also 'chew'? O, Civilization, how rapid is thy march?
