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[[boxed date]] 1862 May 1 Thursday [[/boxed date]] in a hot pot of Borden Meat biscuit soup wh. I had gotten cooked by "Jennie." At VII-40 All started for the point I had selected to wit where from appearance I could make an ascent of the Great Glacier which I had seen on my Voyage up this Bay last fall. My course across the Bay to Kin-gaite was nearly south - S. 4° E. (true) The number of dogs that made up team was 10 but being in poor condition made but 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 miles per hour. In making transit of Bay came to 2 Seal-holes on northern two holes that the Polar Bears had dug out reaching down through the snow to Seal Igloos - These holes 4 to 5 feet deep Around one the [[?lain]] blood & pieces of skin & offal of Seal showing that Ni-noo had made him a Seal Feast there. Some of the distance across much hummocky ice - the snow wreaths numerous, abrupt & high making our progress up & down every up having its corresponding [[underlined]]down[[/underlined]] tho' the latter not much [[?as]] favorable to one's equilibrium of system & feelings than the former. My time was well occupied in this Bay passage in throwing Log, drawing it in by a 75 feet line, recording time, & viewing the grand prominences of Kingaite [[strikethrough]]?[[/strikethrough]] flying past me at my right. A few minutes before 11, Meridian, draw in to a small Bay that extended on toward the point I sought to reach. With great solicitude I watched that part of the heavens where the Sun was - but to my deep regret the thick clouds that [[?enveloped]] the tops of Kingaite towers, Minarets, Battlements, Pyramids, Columns, Steeples, Monuments - & [[underlined]] Mountain Glazier were as thick veil between my eyes & it. During the day Sun-shine on the other (on N.E. side of the Bay also upon the Bay a little distance from Kin-gaite, but none on Kin gaite [[underlined]]till after I left it.[[underlined]] I had my instrument [[end page]] [[start page]] [[boxed date]] 1862 May 1 Thurs. [[/boxed date]] all in readiness in case the sun should show itself for a few moments. If I could have got a 2 ^[[☉]] obs. after Meridian, [[strikethrough]]by wh.[[/strikethrough]] keeping connect a/c of the [[underlined]]elapsed time[[/underlined]] between them, by wh. to obtain accurately the Elaspsed Tine on [[underlined]]"hour angle"[[/underlined]] I should have done so for by these obs. I could have determined actual Lat. I was in - but the clouds were too voluminous & thick to allow Sun rays to penetrate themj. But I kept careful a/c of my Course & distance made by wh I determine the Latitude of Kin-gaite Coast which I made to. As the dogs turned up the narrow bay leading to proposed point of making land I was delighted to see the face of an abutting Glazier wh fully proved true any anticipations that there were Ice-berg discharges on the Kin-gaite side! At hIV-m55-s30 precisely ^[[(near M)]] our progress was arrested by said face wh seemed to smile & defy. Thus far & no farther can your dog team go! Here by this crystal wall, I stood in admiration & awe beholding its beauty & grandeur. My Innuit companion seemed satisfied & gratified in witnessing the effect it had upon me [[strikethrough]]?[[/strikethrough in beholding what was before us. I turned & took a look Sea-ward. A few degrees of opening between the points of land leading into the harbor where we were gave a view bounded only by Sea horizon. My quickend thoughts almost made me [[? ?ask]] exclaim: "Tell us time aged crystal mount, have you looked in your mirror chambers any images of White Man's Ships that sailed up these water out there near 3 Centuries ago?" This train of fancy painting was soon substituted by the substantial reality of a lunch on cold Rock-pemican & gold-dust (Borden's pulverized Meat biscuit) washed down by chips from Gla[[strikethrough]]z[[/strikethrough]] ^[[c]] ier. I & my Innuit companion really had a good dinner - & then a smoke together, following wh. we were prepared for the attempt to scale the Ice Mountain; As I need not repeat the description here ^[[of the aspect of Glacier]] having recorded ^[[it]] in My Log Book. [[end page]]
Transcription Notes:
See pages 516-19 in Hall's book. For "throwing log" see pp 521 &539 in Hall's book. Method of measuring distance travelled. Hall uses "pemmican" spelling in his book. Here he corrects his spelling of "galcier."
