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[[boxed date]] 1862 May 23 Fri[[/boxed date]] [[encircled 2 in right corner]] Henry" is now alternately set with Venison Steaks Polar bear steaks, Walrus & Ook-gook meat all Capital eating. By the by since my return I have had an [[underlined]] Innuit's appetite [[/underlined]] voracious & unsatisfied. I have to-day tried an experiment - & it worked well - had some of Borden's pulverized Meat Biscuit yet on hand. I had [[strikethrough]] some [[/strikethrough]] a quart of it [[underlined]] "browned" [[/underlined]] same as one would brown Coffee. After wh. made a kettle on pot of Coffee! It proved an excellent substitute for Coffee - not unlike in taste & flavor! Borden's Meat Biscuit forever! To-day on [[strikethrough] mentionl [[/strikethrough] mentioning to M-garng that I was in want of some Tobacco, he brought in a "block" of it (numbering 12 hands) & gave the same to me. He said that he had a large lot of it up at Oo-koo-lear that he had saved it out of the quantity wh. Capt B. gave him for his services while engaged in whaling. At the same time M-garng asked me if I had one or two pieces of Kod-lu-nar stones such as the Kod-lu-nars (Whites) brought into Ni-oun-te-lik a great many years ago? He said that Innuit use them for striking Ik-ku-mar - (fire) & that he had lost his & wanted a piece. Kood-loo had just brought in a pan-too (mitten) full of these flint stones wh. he had clandestinely pocketted while engaged with the other Innuits for & with me selecting these flint stones. [[line across page]] The [[strikethrough]]?[[/strikethrough]]abstracted leaves are accounted for 8 leaves [[underlined]] ante [[/underlined]] [[end page]] [[what appears here in the gutter between pages above and below are the stubs of the 8 pages Hall removed from the Journal book, and mention their use on another page, where he said he ran out of note paper]] [[start page]] [[boxed date]] 1862 May 23 [[/boxed date]] [[encircled 3 in right corner]] from the coals at Ni-oun-te-lik & this other Coal deposits, up the Bay [[?10}} miles easterly from Ni-oun-te-lik, & for wh. I gave him (K) a box of [[?Perc[[ Caps. I took out 2 pieces & gave M-garng. I then asked M-garng if these stones belonged in the Innuit's country? He answered: "An-gi" (No) He said that his mother's father's mother told his old mother that Kod-lu-nars in big ships brought them here ^[[mingled with Ik-ka-min stuff (Coals)]] [[underlined]] amasuadloa [[/underlined]] (a great many) years ago. Now the mother of M-garng is the old Innuit woman with whom I conversed last year on the subject of ships coming into Tu-nuk-jok-ping-oo-sy-ong a long time ago. She was the one that first opened up the oral history preserved among the Innuits of the Expeditions of Frobisher of 1576-1577 & 1578. Her name Oo-ki-joz-y-ni-noo, the oldest Innuit living. 75 or 80 years of age. I asked M-garng if he knew where Ni-pou-ee-tie-sup-bing was? He said that it was Tho-ee-en-y - throwing his hand forward in the direction of Countess of Warwick's Sound. Said it was near Kol-lu-narn Island - that it was a place where there was a deep water up to the land - that there was a bluff (high rocks there where Kod-lu-nars raised up masts & put them in a ship wh. they towed around from Kod-lu-nard to Ne-pou-ee-tie-sup-bing. Soon after, "Bob" ^[[King-wat-che-ung)]] came into the Cabin. I asked him Nou-ti-ma Ne-pou-ee-tie-sup-bing? He answered at once that it was a place near Kod-lu-narn where white men ^[[took their ship &]] put in her masts. - Said that "Ne-pou-ee-tie-sup-bing was a name the Innuits made because Kod-lu-nars put masts the ship there - the Innuits made the name ^[[Ne-pou-ee-tie-sup-bing]] same as they (theInnuits) made the name where 1st see whitE man - [[underlined]] 'KOD-LU-NAR' [[/underlined]]. While on this subject matter I will introduce an incident that occured to-day relative to a piece of Brick that I found a day or two since [[end page]]
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Ni-pou-ee-tie-sup-bing (alternate spellings: Ni-pou-e-tie sup-bing; Ni-pou-e-tie Sup-bing. See pp 480 & 554 in Hall's book. Hall's mis-spellings not corrected.
