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(5 [[boxed]] 1861 Dec 19 Thurs [[/boxed]] [[left margin red vertical line from top of page to end of page]] [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] tobacco pipe that laid on the table before me. She then had me hold a book down by the table's [[strikethrough]] side [[/strikethrough]] edge. She placed the mouth end of the tobacco pipe on the Book ^[[the other on Bowl]] [[strikethrough]] one [[/strikethrough]] end resting on the edge of the table - then at the other end of the Book, she placed the pen handle (the rib-end) resting on same edge of the table. Both were thus on an incline. She commenced raising one of the symbol masts till upright - then raised the other, I holding on to the Book. While Twer-oong held up the ^[[emblem]] masts, I took up a pencil & placed it, 1st on an incline, then ^[[I]] raised it to the perpendicular & asked her: Ping-a-su-it? (Were there not three masts?) She shook her head as soon as I raised the pencil - & to my question, she answered [[underlined]] decisively: [[/underlined]] [[strikethrough]] [[?]] - [[/strikethrough]] 'Ag-gi'! (No) - Adding: [[underlined]] 'Muk-Ko! Muk-Ko'!! [[/underlined]] (Two! Two!!) Therefore, I have now determined that when the white people who built the vessel on Kod-lu-narn had launched her, they towed her around the Point of [[end page]] [[start page]] [[right margin red vertical line to end of this page]] (6 [[boxed]] 1861 Dec 19 Thurs [[/boxed]] Tik-Koon, to the Bluff there, & by that means were enabled ^[[to]] raise [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] ^[[&]] set their two Masts! I now remember of the [[strikethrough]] remember [[/strikethrough]] of the remark made to me by Koo-jes-se last Winter, when he & I were passing to Oo-pung-ne-wing at a distance from said Bluff. 'There', said he, 'where Kod-le-narns make ^[[(or]] put) in Masts. I thought the remark preposterous & gave but little attention to it. But here comes an important remark of Kook-Smit. Speaking of the ship when ready for Sea & of the Kod-lu-nars trying to get out, Kook-Smit said: 'Ti-mat-chu hi-[[prong]]-ers nar-me, arn-a-su-it Kod-lu-nars nar-me - Mik-e-ook-Koo-loo Kod-lu-narns Away go smelley. [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] Wich-ou Kirte' That is The ship was not like other ships - did-nt have men enough - too few in number to work through the ice. If they had [[end page]] [[start page]] [[line across top of pages 7 and 8]] [[left margin red vertical line to mid page]] (7 [[boxed]] 1861 Dec 19 Thurs [[/boxed]] enough could have got through. The ship came back. This shows that the number ^[[of Whites]] was small. According to old Oo-Ki-jox-y-ni-noo there were only five. How long it does take to gather in all of the links of this [[strikethrough]] near [[/strikethrough]] ^[[near]] Three hundred-years-old-chain! I am convinced, were I on King William's Land & Boothia & could live there two years, I could gather facts relative to Sir John Franklin's Expedition - gather facts from the Innuits that would astonish the civilized World! How [[underlined]] easy [[/underlined]] to go back a score of years or so & get truthful history ^[[from]] among the Innuits [[end page]] [[start page]] (8 [[boxed]] 1861 Dec 19 Thurs [[/boxed]] to what it is to [[strikethrough]] acquire [[/strikethrough]] plunge into the history of near 3 Centuries [[strikethrough]] I [[/strikethrough]] & draw it forth! May I live to see the day when I can visit King Williams Land & Boothia & secure the full history as it must exist among the Innuits there of said Expedition! Compare Chros. (Vide Dec 14) R's V-30-17 (34(2 GH's V-10-00 ([[underlined]] Vide [[/underlined]] Dec 26) [[line]] 20-17 [[checkmark]] (8 Columns in this day's Record)
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