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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.