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[[note]] WHALES Am-a-su-it!! [[/note]]
Toong-wine
Tuesday Dec 17 1861
(17 columns in this Day's Record.)
(17 columns in this Day's Record)

28.95  AM  -19°
28.85  M  -13°
28.55  PM  -11

I did think of starting this Morning but could not get through with my business - & then too we were up quite too late.  A storm is predicted.
This Morning I invited "Sampson" to show me the skins he designed to let me have.  After another long "talk" with his noo-loo-an-a (wife) & some self-contemplation, he said he would let me have [[underlined]] one [[/underlined]] skin - a very large, fine one.  This was a disappointment for I had no doubt but I should secure 2 of him as I knew he had a large bale of them.  But without further delay I wished a sight of what he had.  "Sampson" pushed his manly dimensions into the small Igloo at the left (going out) of the entrance to Main Igloo where he keeps his jackets & Took-too skins.  After considerable tumbling over things in general he drew forth what I was anxious to see - his complement of Took-too furs.  Soon he placed before me the skin he had concluded to part with.  I was satisfied that this one skin was equivilent in size to 

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ordinary two.  It is a fine one indeed of long hair wh. is firmly set.
Then I asked Sampson to graify me by showing the rest of the skins.  He raised one after another saying that is for my noo-loo-an-a's jacket - that is for her Kod-lins - that & that are for wonga's jacket - that for wonga's Kod-lins - that for Puk-e-ne-yer's jacket & so on till the pile was handled over.  I had fixed my eye upon one that I felt bound to have if I could use the right [[underlined]] arguments [[/underlined]] (?)  I leaned back & whispered to his noo-loo-an-a Wonga Muk-Ko took-too su-pung-lus am-a-su-it;  (I wish 2 Took-too (Rein-deer) skins - I'll give you many beads).
This touched the [[underlined]] right [[/underlined]] vein - her eyes twinkled assent.  I then spoke to Sampson that I wished him to let me have 2 skins - one beside the large one.  I pointed to the one I wanted - he hung his head thought - spoke to his wife.  She signified no objection to the skin was one that had been selected for her jacket.  I told "Sampson" what I would [[?]]