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1862
June 
23d. 
Mond.
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[[Image - Captioned 'Kitch-ik-tunge'. Drawing of two craggy icebergs in background, one iceberg in foreground with water between. ^[[x]] X 'Ice bergs numerous open water for several miles this side Kitch-ik-tunge']]
Small Isd
[[image - Captioned 'Small Ids'. Drawing of small iceberg in water.]] 
[[image - Captioned 'Monumental Isd or Oo-mi-en-wa' Drawing of large plateaued Island, looks like Monumental Island of Sir John Franklin, illustrated on p 549 of Hall's book]]
[[image - Captioned 'Small Isd.'. Drawing of small iceberg in water]]
[[image - Captioned 'Small Isd So of O'. medium-size iceberg in water]]
Right Tang. Oo-mi-er-wa 186[[degree symbol]]
Lt. " " [[dittos for:  Tang.  Oo-mi-er-wa]] 1874s
An Islet below or S Oo-mi-er-wa 183[[degree symbol]]
The Cape or long narrow Point rounded from wh. to this Sing-eyed Point was my direct course bears 179[[degree symbol]]. Said Cape the one I have before considered as the N. entrance to R. Bay but now & shall hereafter consider this Sing-eye er Penninsular as the entrance Cape N. side.
Have awaited here till XI A.M. for an improvement in weather being very desirous to connect important points of Rescue Bay with Capes, Islands & Bays above here ^[[by sextant angles & to make some bearings]]. Have been to top of the Island Mountain on wh. I have 1st Enc. twice.  The Island about 500 feet high & 1/4 mile [[strikethrough]] circul [[/strikethrough]] diameter. The view sea-ward is sufficient to show that only some 5 miles out there is no ice except ice-bergs - all one clear, blue, rolling sea.
Clear water extends up to the Cape with Gap S side R Bay wh bears from here 126[[degree symbol]]: Clear sea (with the exception made) many miles this side of the Islands, Kitch-ik-tunge & Oo-mi-en-wa, & extending wh past the Islands E. side of the entrance to Bud. Bay toward Northumberland Inlet. The ice close by shore heaving & groaning with the heavy sea that is prevailing out-side the floe. From the top of mountain discover many ice fissures that will cause much trouble & risks in crossing them.
[[underlined]] Start [[/underlined]] place 1st Enc. of this trip [[underlined]] h IV - m 10 [[/underlined]] (say XI - 10 AM) but a few minutes out & find ourselves travelling on very dangerous ice - ice-cracking - ice cracks - tide-holes - We hurry on to cross an entrance to a Bay (extruding Westward & Southwest toward Rescue Bay) that we may be near land if the ice should set off by wind or tide (s 10) pass dangerous ice fissure (s 8) s 12) s 12) s 13) s 14) = h V)
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1862
June 23d. Mond.
[[underlined]] Stop V-5 [[/underlined]] (s 13) E proceeds to attempt to secure Ook-gook a little way ahead on the ice. Bearing 1st Enc. 129[[degree symbol]]: Oo-mi-en-wa 177[[degree symbol]] Kitch-ik-tung 203[[degree symbol]]:  [[underlined]] Start h V - m 54  Stop h V - m 56 [[/underlined]] (s 8) Ook-gook went down just before E. was ready to fire.
Tar-ru-o-arc-chune Bluff (S. side entrance) 326[[degree symbol]]
(A) of sketch 1 mile to left of here [[strikethrough]] nr Cape [[/strikethough]] 45[[degree symbol]]; (B) 346[[degree symbol]] (C) 338[[degree symbol]]
Bluff on high land Koo-tuk-ju-a or very near there 319[[degree symbol]]
[[underlined]] Start VI - 10 [[/underlined]] (s 11) sledging along by the edge Ice fissure wh. is to our left that we cannot yet cross, runs toward S.E. end Rogers Isd (s 13) (s 12) s 11) cross the crack & travel along its edge it now being to our right (s 12) s 10) (s 10) [[underlined]] Stop VII - 30 [[/underlined]] (s 16):  Bearing 1st Enc. 123[[degree symbol]] (A) of sketch 106[[degree symbol]] (B) 54[[degree symbol]] (C) 44[[degree symbol]] (D) Tar-ru-u-are-chun Bluff S. side entrance 19[[degree symbol]]. Cape on N side do 357[[degree symbol]]. Direction of this Bay where E & K's Igloos were that I visited last winter 14[[degree symbol]].
[[image - drawing of irregular coastline annotated - 1st Enc., Sing-eye, A, B, C, D, Isd-ni-o ice-tusce[[guess]] ]]
Cape on Point S side apparently entrance to Brown's Bay  343[[degree symbol]]
Koo-tuk-ju-a Bluff 324[[degree symbol]]. [[underlined]] The Cape [[/underlined]] of Main at the turn to go up to the Northumberland Inlet 282[[degree symbol]]. I find I was mistaken in obsn of Main Land at this turn at 1st Enc. Ebierbing says that a channel runs up to Ni-an-te-lik on the one (labord[[guess]] side going N) the Main Land starboard side Island wh. way numerous - the one now is being called Ki-ki-tuk-ju-a for its being a very long one. [[underlined]] The Cape [[/underlined]] a ^[[bold high]] bluff.  
The extreme of Island Eastward of this Cape that the "George Henry" rounded as we came down (1860) 247[[degree symbol]]; The Eastern Extreme of Ki-ki-tuk-tuk-ju-a wh. I supposed to be the Main Land at1st Enc 250[[degree symbol]]; Near where sledges cross narrow neck Sing-eye-yen 100[[degree symbol]]; The middle of Channel of Bud Bay as it extends up on W. side of Oo-kood-lear Isd. 321[[degree symbol]] Stenny's [[?]]

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Comment from the Transcription Team: It is more challenging to key in special characters, so our instruction ask you not to worry too much about them, just do the best you can. However, when one is able to produce the special characters, we welcome them. As long as the characters look right, we can leave them in place. Thank you. Transcription Center Team Edited: per instructions, replaced degree symbol with text, reformatted image entries per instructions, corrected some text, removed end of page on sd page not required "Oo-mi-en-wa" is Innuit name for the Island Hall named Monumental Island of Sir John Franklin, see p 548-549 in Hall's book describing his surveying of the area. Someone did a very good job interpreting this hard to read page. I corrected some of the names by researching Hall's book. The numbers in half parenthesis are Hall's recording of throwing his "Sledge Log"(pp 521 &539) to measure distance travelled. "Ook-gook" = seal. The Journal dates (June 22, 23) and events in this series of pages do not seem to match the description and dates in Hall's book. In the book these events seem to be nearer June 24, 25 & 26.