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1861 Dec 24 Tues
As her face thus rested, I asked her the Innuit name of the blue streaks on her forehead, cheeks & chin? She replied 'Tood-nie'. I told her in America we call the same Tat-too.
To-night = Christmas Eve!
How fondly did we anticipate some weeks ago of being at Home in the States to spend the Holidays that are now here? But it hath been ordered by Him that ruleth not so to be. We are here struggling to gain the wherewith that we may live through this long Winter.
The arrival of Innuits with dogs & sledge from Toong-wine to-night.
Breakfast = Whale - (tender & as fat as young reindeer & the like in taste) Coffee & Bread
Dinner = Pemican & B.M. Biscuit (much liked by all)
Supper = Coffee, Sea bread, & "Black Skin"
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Christmas Day Wednesday Dec 25/61
29.500 AM -17° N.W. Light [[underlined]] Fine [[/underlined]]
29.525 M -15 N W " [[ditto for: Light]] [[underlined]] Fine [[/underlined]]
29.537 PM -16° N W " [[ditto for: Light]] [[underlined]] Fine [[/underlined]]
'I wish you Merry Christmas!'
'Wish you Merry Christmas!' were the joyful words ringing merrily on board the the "George Henry" early this Morning.
Kop-e-u (or his other name Neu-wat-che) & Ang-mer-che-ung were the Innuits that arrived from Toong-wine last night.
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1861 Dec 25 Wedns
Little Puk-e-ne-yer did not come as she expected. This party expect to return to-morrow ([[?Com-peet]])
Twer-oong (her other name "Ek-ek-Koong") was in early this Morning. She had a "Merry Christmas" when partaking Coffee & Bread with me at my breakfast eating.
Just at night, Tuk-a-lik-e-tu with her infant at her back came aboard. The greeting was wishing each other "Merry Christmas". I have not seen her since two or 3 days preceeding my leaving for Toong-wine. She said: 'that though I did not probably wish to see her yet she must come & see me'. I, of course, assured her that if she had had any such thought that I did not wish to see her, she was very much mistaken, for she & her winga, Ebierbing, were as children to my heart. Her eyes poured forth streams of scalding tears as she spoke to me the words indicated. Her infant is fat & healthy, growing like a flourishing pig & Tuk-oo-li-too appears in a fine new rig.
To-morrow several more Innuits start off from here. Some go to Oo-pung-ne-wing - others to Toong-wine. Sterry & his Innuit
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1861 Dec 25 Wedns
[[underlined]] wife [[/underlined]] (?) for the Winter (or rather from the time the "George Henry" first made anchorage in Rescue Bay till she (G.H.) departs) thinks of leaving to-morrow Morning.
Sharkey is expected back from Budington Bay to-night.
Miner & Koo-pern-near-ung start off for Oo-pung-ne-wing to-morrow with a load of Muk-tuk ("Black Skin"). After this, they return & take their families over.
Capt B. has given each man Aft a little Bag of Sugar for the "sweet tooth" - to be used while living with the natives this Winter. I have received a Bag of the same.
While Tuk-oo-li-too was sitting in the little aft Cabin talking with me Capt B. came in & gave her 1/2 of a [[underlined]] fried pie. [[/underlined]] ([[underlined]] Omelet [[/underlined]] I should call it if there had been eggs in it)
By the by Our "Christmas Dinner" was "Fried-pies" the [[underlined]] "enclosed" [[/underlined]] being Peach sauce. I doubt not we relished the dinner quite as well as thousands in the States did theirs!
A [[underlined]] sharpened [[/underlined]] appetite gives the relish for even the simplest food. Breakfast: Whale, Coffee & Sea bread; Supper 1/2 "fried pie" & Coffee Capital
[[image: sketch of pie annotated Shape of fried pies]]
[[margin note]] Pies fried in slush by Capt. B - the [[?busiest/bread]] fingers! [[/margin note]]
