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The other Boat (Miner's) is not ready - some of their dogs are missing - have to stop & hook them up - but I hurry up that I may stop at Kod-lu-narn if I can induce the Innuits of my boat so to do.
Every thing in readiness now bid adieu to Ni-oun-te-lik &
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for Ug-bin-see-o-ping[[guess]] - my last not taking a Snow Knife & Cutting up two patches of grass interlaced with Coal of near 3 Centuries ago!
A few moments after starting Koo-per-ne-ung shot two Nowyers on the wing - one being shot on its wing broken the other hovered around & thus cost its life.
Glorious! I have just concluded arrangements with my crew to stop at Kod-lu-narn as we pass along - I give Koo-jes-se 5 boxes Caps Kood-loo 2 & Koo-per-ne-ung 2  I intended to visit the island again on Monday after going to the Little Bay but it was night before we left the latter place, therefore could not.
I rejoice at the storm we have had and

Transcription Notes:
"Caps" percussion caps for their rifles, page. See page 436 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."