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2d day out
Near
Lupton
Channel 
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[[strikethrough]] Mo [[/strikethrough]]
Tuesday Oct 8 1861 (1
AM S.E. Fresh [[underlined]] Thick Clouds [[/underlined]]
M S.E. A Gale with show
P. M. S.E. [[underlined]] Furious Gale [[/underlined]]  Cloudy
This Morn the weather unpropitious - Yet we go ahead - prepare breakfast (coffee and bread) & [[strikethrough]] at [[/strikethrough]] eat it - Strike Tupiks - & Start - As I have no time piece will have to guess at it - I think it VIII-30 AM  Ebierbing talks discouragingly as we are about to launch the Boat - he wants to turn back I am inclined to think without making much exertion He does not show the disposition to make any thing like a corresponding acknowledgment of what I have done [[strikethrough]] for [[/strikethrough]] & was constantly doing for him. So it is with Innuits unfortunately. Now under way - the above written when 1/2 hour out - There is considerable Sea wind dead ahead. Snowing at the upper part of the Bay - slight snow with us just before starting - The heavens in [[thick]] dark Clouds - Ebierbing says it is going to blow hard to-day - Taps me on the shoulder to look up the Bay where it is snowing - yet it does not look so bad ahead - tho bad enough We may yet have to turn back before  accomplishing my purpose.
2 hours later say XI All Innuits 2 miles short of entrance to Lupton Strait! Our passage from ^[[one mile this side]] our 1st Encampment has been one of exposure & danger. A snow storm & Gale met us overwhelming us in thickness ^[[of the former]] - & Sea water.

Transcription Notes:
See pages 446-447 of Hall's book.