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When I went to Ebierbing's this Morning I found Tuk-oo-li-too busily engaged moving - packing up this & that - rolling up this & that bundle & passing them out of the Igloo - all the while the infant in her Nei-shuk (hood) at her back - thus leaving her 2 hands free for hard service.
In returning to-night, so dark that I had great difficulty to get from the Island down onto the ice.
I regret to find that "Her. Smith" is an invalid from the effects of a frost-bite while with me on my trip to Toong-wine. Going up he froze one of his great toes (the one on left foot). He neglected proper attention to it at the time & now it is in a very bad state. The bone of the toe is even exposed, but Capt B.
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is poulticing it & applying medicated plasters, wh. attentions will probably save the toe.
By the by, I brought the present of Whale beef by my good friend An-ne-wa aboard - it will make all aft a capital breakfast.
To-night the appearance of the weather indicates a snow-storm. The heavens are in thick clouds - snowing moderately.
{ Breakfast = Fried Whale, Salt Pork, Coffee & Bread
{ Dinner = Flippers & Molasses (Excellent)
{ Supper - Coffee & Sea-bread
To-night on the table of the main Cabin is a piece of raw, frozen Whale meat weighting perhaps 20 lbs (the piece Capt. B. bought with the aforementioned tobacco.) This piece became the subject of quite an interesting conversation between Capt B. & myself relative to its qualities as a preventative of scurvy - & of its currative virtues of the
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same disease. Capt. B. is well qualified to speak on this subject as he has had sad experience during the terrible ravages of said disease.
In the Winter of 1855 & 6 out of his brig "Georgian" in Oo-Kood-lear Bay (Budington Bay) he lost 13 men of scurvy. The officers & men numbered 22; Including the Commander 23.
[[note]] In his voyage of 1855 & 6 Capt B. did not know the virtues of Fresh meat in cases of Scurvy [[/note]]
Alluding to the piece of Whale Beef, described above, Capt B. said that he would give more for [[underlined]] that [[/underlined]] (raw meat) in case of scurvy than all medicines presented in medical Works that he had ever read. He says that in the worst cases of his experience, nothing would seem to arrest this horrid disease like raw meat, or fresh blood. The trouble was to get it when wanted. Lime juice he says is very good in keeping off the disease. It requires just so much of this to be taken daily while one is living almost wholly on salted meats to counteract the poison infused, so to speak, of eating said meats. But the use
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of Lime juice makes it more difficult to cure the patient with fresh meats than if he had not partaken of it. Capt says: Give me (him) fresh Seal, Whale or fresh meat of any kind above any vegetables or medicines for curing the scurvy.
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Saturday, Dec. 28th, 1861
29.350 AM -6° N W Light Cloudy
29.425 M -8° N.W. Light [[underlined]] Fine [[/underlined]]
29.475 PM -15° N W Gale [[underlined]] Fine [[/underlined]] 5 P.M.
The wind did not shift last night from N.W. therefore it brought fair weather this Morn. It however snowed some during the night.
Capt B. related the following anecdote this morning (of the like he has always a fund on hand).
A boy riding out one Winter's day was noticed to be shivering & crying with the cold. He was told by some one sympathising with the little sufferer to jump off & go afoot & thus shake him warm. He cried out [[?lusterly]],I got off! I won't do it. This
