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Ten pages to-day's R. Friday, Jan 3d, 1862 29.225 AM 0° W. Fresh Snow Cloudy 29.225 M +5 WNW Light (Light snow) " [[ditto for: Cloudy]] 29.325 P.M. -4° N.W. Light Fair (Venus & [[symbol: Moon]]) This Morning early it was star light - by degrees it began to cloud up & in a short time commenced snowing. Ebierbing came aboard telling me that his noo-li-an-a Tuk-oo-li-too was no better. Capt. B. who is an excellent pysician, by the bye, was applied to by me. He compounded a dose of medicine which I took over & administered to the sick one. While there I had a talk with Ebierbing about he & his family accompanying me on my Winter trip up Frobisher [[end page]] [[start page]] (2 1862 Jan 3 Fri He thought well of the proposition about going signifying if Tuk-oo-li-too on thinking it over comes to same conclusion they would go with me. I told them if they prefered to go to Oo-kood-lear to spend the Winter they could do so & all would be right - but if they would go with me I would like it much. I give them to-day to conclude on what they would prefer to do. As I came from the Igloo, met Capt B. struggling through the deep snow on his way to get a pair of seal skin Kodlins (I gave him this Morning) wh. he had been getting [[underlined]] enlardged! [[/underlined]] An excellent path through the deep snow I found from the ship nearly to Ebierbing's Igloo. I wondered who had made it on my way from the ship, where I met one of the largest of the Innuit dogs returning toward the vessel dragging along a portion of [[end page]] [[start page]] (3 1861 Jan 3 Fri the stove that was used in the Main Cabin till a month ago when it was cast out to make place for a little Cook Stove. When put out on the ice it had a crack in the middle running nearly around it. The part the dog was attached to was the base or lower half. [[image: drawing annotated part of stove]] The dog had been made fast to it for the object of keeping him close by the vessel but in his struggles to get loose he started the stove from its frozen position & away he dragged it across the ice of the harbor - over the broken ice between main ice & shore & thence to the Igloos where he rested awhile & then started back for the vessel. A capital arrangement it proved for road breaking! [[end page]] [[start page]] (4 1862 Jan 3 Fri Before our dinner hour (2 PM) the Innuit who accompanied Mate Lamb up to his quarters returned bringing the News that the Innuits there had killed 2 more Took-too while Lamb was here! Ook-sin killed one & "Jim Crow" the other. This makes Seven rein deer by that community up there. This PM additional News - from Toong-wine - some good & some bad. "Dick" (Cop-e-o) returned from Toong-wine arriving 3 P.M. He started yesterday Morning & was accompanied by Ning-u-ar-ping, son of Kok-er-job-in who went up there to move his family & effects Dec 26th Four Ook-gook (larges size seals) have been caught while Dick was there. Dick made fast to the 5th but lost it. Two deaths have occured since I was there. One an Old Woman Innuit who was present at Seal Feast in wh. I participated last
