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[[boxed date]] 1862 May 1st Thurs [[/boxed date]] proceede thus: Without doub the best time of the year to travelover Glazier Mountains is ^[[just]] before the snows have begun to melt. The Winter snows are then well impacted on the Glazier surface, all the dangerous cracks & water ditches filled up. Storms & Gales do good work eith now flakes as when once within their fingers. The Glazier (a minute portion of its immensity visited to-day) of Kin-gaite in 3 1/2 to 4 months from now will present quite a different appearance from what it does now. Now [[strikethrough]]of above[[/strikethrough]] robed in white, - when naked, clear, bright, flashing cerulian blue [[strikethrough]]will[[/strikethrough]] meets the eye of the beholder. The contrast I have seen. When on my voyage up Bay of Frobisher last fall the Great Glazier of Kin-gaite heaved heaven ward its Crystal Blue - on my return the same was covered [[strikethrough]]in wh[[/strikethrough]] in its Winter dress. White for Winter - Blue for Summer - There it is & has been with Kin-gaite Glazier for the World's Age. From what I have been able to glean from Innuits relative to its length (I mean Great Glazier of Kin-gaite)) it exceeds 100 miles. It has many places of discharge below where I visited to-day (toward Resolution Island) Some places where huge Ice-bergs are the "off shoots". My Innuit Companion is perfectly acquainted with the Coast (& inland) between the point visited to-day & Koo-mo-wong, the latter being the name of an Innuit Land on N. side Hudsons Strait. He says that he has seen the turning point SE (by Resolution Island) & that some of them shoot [[end page]] [[start page]] [[boxed date]] 1862 May1 Thur. [[/boxed date]] off Ice-bergs of large, very large size with the sound of thunder! From his (Kar-nei-ung's) description as we stood under the face of the one of the places discharge of Great Gla[[strikethrough]]z[[/strikethrough]] &[[c]] ier of Kin-gaite; the snows on [[strikethrough]]on up[[/strikethrough] Glacier melts in the latter part of summer & forms pouring, leaping rives. As cold weather sets in all the crevices in Glazier gets charged with water wh. congealing, expand, & [[underlined]]explode with the sound of loud thunder,[[/underlined]] renting the mountains of ice & shooting off Ice-bergs & smaller ice-debris at the various points where Glazier has it arms reaching down to the Tar-ri-o (Sea) His talk was instructive as well as [[underlined]]highly & deeply[[/underlined]] interesting to me. Long will I remember my "Going Maying" on Kin-gaite's 100 mile-Glacier in 1862! I must here record my like of my Innuit Companion of to-day The more I see of Kar-nei-ung - this ever laughing child of Nature, the better I like him. He is ever ready to please a White man, never tire in his labor - will face storm - expose himself to the severest cold weather for the accomplishment of some3 good to some ^[[body or]] any body. He is generous & Kind, Truthful, faithful - [[underlined]]Noble[[/underlined]]. After leaving 9th Enc. my Innuit Companion kept a sharp look-out for Ni-noos (Polar Bears) sweeping around his head & eyes this & that way - every way. I often joined in this searching look being anxious equally to engage in the attack of this Northern "Beef on the hoof" as Kar-nei-ung. In returning the wind began to breeze up ^[[from the N W]] to such a degree as to become almost a gale. The risk we were in crossing Bay of Frobisher where we did was great. There was danger in it because of the liability of the flow cracking off & drifting ^[[ [[strikethrough]]the gale ?coming[[/strikethrough]] us with it Sea-ward. The open water was within a mile or so of our Course. The flow giving away would have been swept rapidly to the S.E. My dog driver was constantly urging the dogs to their greatest speed while making passage over the most dangerous part of the way to 9th Enc. [[end page]]
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See pages 419-420 in Hall's book. "Kar-nei-ung" is "Sharkey." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grinnell_Glacier
