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[[image - A very complex drawing of a long coastline (land right, water left) with numerous notes and labels written in every direction, most barely readable. The basis of the image is the highly irregular coastline drawn roughly down the middle of the page. [[Note]] in upper left margin Ooperneung[[guess]] High land crossed at 26th Enc! [[/Note]]
At the top of the drawing are text: 'Little Bay where found Coal above Sharko'. Below on a promontory text 'the flats Sharko'. To the right are dash marks (possibly a marked path?) to a point lower down marked 26th Enc. The path (or land route taken?) is labeled 'High[[guess]], Precipatory[[guess]] Land'. In a small cove below the prom text 'By B Com NE & SW'. In the left margin 'X-1-05 [[encircled]] 7 [[/encircled]]', with a line connecting to the tip of the peninsula enclosing an inlet.  Out in the bay text 'This Bay one Enc [[?5]] was in'. At the site marked '26th Enc' is presumably the time 10-15 by an encircled 10. The coast below 26th Enc is marked 'Low Land'.  Below that is a note with a line to the coast '1/2 mile deep this cove'. Below is an underlined, unreadable word.  Below that is a prom. and four tiny islands with the note 'IV-30 encircled 7'. At the bottom of the drawing there is the note "hV-m22 Budington^[[ville]] ]]
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Stop 26th Enc 
XI-15 [[encircled]] 10 [[/encircled
[[encircled]] A [[/encircled]]
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Transcription Notes:
This map probably the result of description of events on pages 438-439 in Hall's book: "...we reached the termination of the high land below Sharko, and encamped*.... *Our twenty-sixth encampment was in lat. 62? 38' N., long. 65? 02' W." Hall's note at the bottom of page 140 hV- m22 Budingtonville" may be Hall's playful way of getting back to Captain Budington's ship. Hall's supplies, books and equipment are listed on pages 194-195 in Hall's book. "My instruments were, 1 telescope, 1 self-registering thermometer, 1 pocket sextant, 2 magnetic compasses, and 1 marine glass. I had also a rifle and ammunition, oil for lamp, and a hand-saw, besides paper, ink, pens, memorandum and journal book." It is possible such maps were drawn on site and recorded while in boats navigating down the coast, explaining their readability.