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Why did this [[underlined]] fellow [[/underlined]] [[strikethrough]] ^[[did]] [[/strikethrough]] not tell me this Morning what he was going to do? The Innuit [[underlined]] concoct [[/underlined]] & act without saying one word to me! I will try & settle accounts with them when I get to the ship - [[underlined]]especially with Koo-jes-se[[/underlined]] - This I write, standing on the ^[[now]] tide-washed Island mid - a snow storm all closed in from view.
Now the thickness lifts up a little Cape that was rounded on leaving 17th enc
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Really [[underlined]] I never took such insolence from any White Man - nor will [[strikethrough]] while []/strikethrough]] I while I have a right arm to defend my honor - [[/underlined]] as I took from Koo-jes-se when he told me ^[[a few moments ago]] I could stop if I wanted & go along down Kin-gaite Side & adding hau^[[gh]]tily  that he did not care for Capt B. 
He Knows that I am in his & friends Innuit power [[underlined]]and he uses it![[/underlined]] How will my friend Capt. B. take this treatment? [[underlined]] I know [[/underlined]]

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[[Note: text on this page has an 'X' marked through all]] These are the notes for pp 421-22 of Hall's book "Arctic Researches, And Life Among The Esquimaux: Being A Narrative Of An Expedition In Search Of Sir John Franklin In The Years 1860, 1861 and 1862." "Capt. B" is probably Captain Budington.