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[[image - Sketch. Coastline with 23 Enc indicated, an island, 'NNE & SSW' written in the channel between, and N&S B. Comp. noted below the island. At the right end of the shoreline is an X, and a word A[[?]]lrn stop[[guess]] V-00 [[encircled]] 5 [[/encircled]] ]] [[left margin]] Stop V-00 [[encircled]] 5 [[/encircled]] [[encircled]] 5 [[/encircled]] [[/left margin]] On Mt 1/2 mile from X Og-bier-see-o-ping 155[[degree symbol]] "Sharko" 160[[degree symbol]] Oo-Nung-ne-wing 165[[degree symbol]] Trend of Bay as near as I can make it on this side 296[[degree symbol]] - 114[[degree symbol]] [[image: Zig-zag shoreline across the page with scattered small islands at left offshore. On the first peninsula 'Place Ob. X.' Nine small islands off the tip. 'Bay' next to it encloses a small island marked '235' and 180[[degree symbol]] at bottom tip. Farther offshore is and island with '173' indicated. Far right of shoreline "Sharko" and below that Og-bier-seer-o-ping[[guess]] ]] Last place Ob. of yesterday by Ming u-toon 8[[degree symbol]] Mt of Ob this Morn 23d Enc [[strikethrough]] 32 [[/strikethrough]] 352
Transcription Notes:
"B Compass must refer to a specific compass[[beleived to stand for "Brass." . N&S may mean the orientation of the map is N at top, etc. See page 426 of Hall's book: "A short distance from Gold Cove we made our twenty-third encampment, on the south side of Jones's Cape, not far from the fourth encampment.
"Og-bun- see-ooping" probably "Og-bier-seer-o-ping (Cape True)" named on page 291.