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While Anye-Koo-tress bellows sings & lets her lips play like the crack of a [[strikthrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] bunch of China fire crackers poping away on the Fourth of July the responses are [[underlined]] chimed [[/underlined]] in by this & that Innuit coming every few moments! She doubly works pulls hard & makes the mountains ring with her Bull-like voice! King-gaite cloud piercing mountains look a little taller [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] while this is going on than before!
Another "Job's comforter" in the immediate neighborhood of the preceding ones on sinister shoulder - Ko-per nen-ung's[[guess]] noo-li-an-a acts as my Surgeon wh. capacity she fills with experienced hand.
At XI - 25 (VI-25 PM) we draw up for making 22 enc.
To-night Innuits having a meeting (religious(?)) Jack is out in front of the [[underlined]] pass [[/underlined]] exercising his preaching (Ange Ku) propensities.
Something new for civilization people while he preaches the finale portion Keep up their singing the Men Innuit making constant responses together

Transcription Notes:
'end of page' not required if single page Scene as described on page 425 in 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. "As she sent forth her unmelodious voice?her lips sounding like so many fire-crackers on a 4th of July festival at home?one and then another of the Innuits took up a responsive chorus to her incantation." Angeku == preacher or mystic?