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3d Day out  |
3d Enc.     |
French Head |
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Wednesday Oct 9th 1861
AM N.W. Strong Fair & cold
M N.W. " " " [[dittos for: Strong Fair & Cold]]
P.M. N.N.W. " [[ditto for: Strong]] Snow storm
I have decided to return to ship as quick as wind & weather will permit - This Morn. communicated this fact to my Innuit Co. Cannot move from this place ^[[(2d enc)]] till wind abates - The sea on Bay rough - & in "White Caps".  Last night ^[[the night long]] gale as strong as when we retired. No lull when wind changed to N.W. Singular & severe the experiences of last night - Six of us lodged in small Tupik 5 slept quite soundly tho Ebierbing groaned now & then with his ailing side, and I attempted to make a shift of position he being next me. The sixth, myself, slept but little so hot & squeezed was I between  hot stoves - Innuit stoves! When I retired I was upon a soft bed - of blankets & Took-tu fur - Being comfortable I slept awhile - when I awoke I was off my bed & distant & 18 inches from it my side pressing upon rough stones. Taking a look around on moving myself up (a small light (Ikunn[[guess]]) in our Tupik) I found all hope of bettering my condition impossible! One Innuit who commenced the night at right angle with 5 of us got up & squeezed himself between An-na-wa & Shev-ek-koo the latter next to me. This movement obliged other movements - the result - I was crowded off the bed - & left ^[[hotly]] Sandwiched between Ebierbing & Shevekoo. Had it not been for this I should probably have missed hearing the storm moan & the hollowed thunder. When morning came I found I was worse off for than when I retired. This going to bed & becoming squeezed dove-tailed interwoven among such a mass of Innuits in the limited space

Transcription Notes:
See page 448 of Hall's book.