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[[blue ink]] 1861 Sept 26: [[/blue ink]] This 27th Enc - many Ducks were secured - about 15 by my hunters. The place where we are encamped is called by Innuits Shur-toe-wik-toe from a self made break-water of [[underlined]] [[??]] - on plate stone. [[/underlined]] Shur-toe-wik-toe means a thin [[strikethrough]] stom [[/strikethrough]] flat stone. I have taken a walk to the place where the tupiks have recently been - I counted 11 ^[[tupik cachs]] - found deposites fresh deposites of seal & Walrus wh. no Innuit of the 2 Boat's companions offer to touch. The meat is beneath piles of stone. A stick runs up obliquely from each that in Winter when ground is deeply covered in snow the places may be easily found by said sticks rising above. I am endeavoring to digest a place by wh. I can draw out of the Innuits the flint-stones (the relics found among the [[strikethrough]] th [[/strikethrough]] coal at Niowatulik & Eha-en-lu-thin wh. I know they have retained ^[[this too]] [[underlined]] dishonestly [[/underlined]]. By tomorrow morning, I will have some expedient devised that will work [[underlined]] more charmingly than a tooth pulled! [[/underlined]] Place of 1st enc. not far off - perhaps a mile down on same side of channel. My enquiries of such Innuit coming up ^[[the channel]] about how far [[strikethrough]] is [[/strikethrough]] in is the indentation on Bay extends on the other side I K-ki-sink-yu-u? - [[underlined]] Not one could tell me. [[/underlined]] It is the Innuit-abandoned-land over there! They (Koo-jes-se, Kood-loo, Koo-per-neu-ung, "Miner", Kuing-n-as-ping, "Jack", nos Kop-e-u had ever been there!! This not more than 2 miles distant [[strikethrough]] th [[/strikethrough]] apparently to the depth of Bay.