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[[image - sketch of the shoreline and site of the twenty-seventh encampment on a small peninsula. One sketch of it (right side of page) is X'd out, and redrawn in more detail on the left side of the page. The place of the encampment is marked with an X. To the right of the Enc. is a large bay noted 'WNW' down its length. Below this the sketch is very confusing with scribbles and overwriting. Below the large bay there is a small promontory labeled 'V-37 [[encircled]] 6 [[/encircled]]'. To the right onshore there is 'Pass'. Below a dotted line across a shallow bay to a point of land labeled 'French Head' circled. Beside the shallow bay '1/2 mile [[?]]' and other undecipherable entries. Below that entry [[encircled]]' NE & SW' [[/encircled]] connected with a line toward shore.]]
In passing of this moment ^[[V-20 [[encircled]] 6 [[/encircled]] ]] a point running down the Bay extending from this (R.B.) toward Budingtonville the water at one point the horizon!
[[image - Profile (elevation) shaded sketch of a Gibraltar-shaped land mass labeled 'French Head' sloping upward to the right and dropping precipitously.]]
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from south "Pass" [[strikethrough]] made [[/strikethrough]] ^[[of]] last Winter in transporting ship's stuff to Budingtonville
Even with French Head the spot of terrible scene of last Winter! The ruins of an Ice-berg ^[[upon]] [[strikethrough]] on [[/strikethrough]] over the very ground that the Frenchman found his end.
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Transcription Notes:
Edit: It is Budingtonville named after Capt. Budington of Hall's ship. "R.B." from context probably refers to Rescue Bay. Bodington Ville seems to be a playful name Hall has given to the site of Flag Staff Hill. Re French Head: "'French Head' is a prominent headland, south side of Field Bay, and so named to commemorate tragic death of the Frenchman, which occurred near its base, as related in Chapter XIII." [Page 318, Hall's book. "As we passed 'French Head,' where poor John Brown had met his death a little over three months previous, we had a look at the spot. Lo! there were his remains just as we had left them, except that foxes or bears had eaten part of his skin clothing. His corpse was untouched!" [Page 327]