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AM -5° N.W. Smart breeze [[underlined]]Fine]]
M -2 N W " " Fair
PM -7° N W Light " "
Koo-jes-se is confined ^[[& has been all day]] in Too-too furs (that is in bed) by inflamed eyes. He is about blind - snow-blind. I took Meridian Alt. of Sun to-day with large sextant. I have commenced viewing both Pocket & Large Sex. tho. to-day omitted the small. The large Sextant is too imperfect to make obs. [[underlined]] precise. [[/underlined]]
A good pocket Chro & good Sextant are requisite in my exploration travels. The Box Chro ^[[wh. I have]] is too fickle to determine Long. by. I keep [[?taking]] careful Dead Reckoning. With this & continuation of Sextant angles from Points determined by Solar bearings I can approximate to ^[[locating]] [[strikethrough]] fixing [[/strikethrough]] the various places I visit truthfully. Of course all will depend upon the Long. determined of Rescue Bay - that too far East or W. the [[?rest]] will have to be altered correspondingly. Another service loss last night I take abed with me every night my ink-stand to keep contents from freezing. Tho it has a screw cap the Ink - half of it oozed out. I made the discovery by a look at one of my hands this morning wh as I drew it out of my sleeping bag was [[?sable ?as a ?noun]].
I make arrangements to -day with Bill (Allokee's son) to take a team of dogs & carry Smith (Henry) back as faras Oo-pung-ne wing giving him a long Knife for the service. This arrangement was soon upset by Bill learning that some of the Innuits had made prior
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& would require the dogs. [[strikethrough]] Le [[/strikethrough]] I soon found that Miner & Koo-per-nei-ung were about starting off down the Bay Sealing on the way to Oo-pung-ne-wing. One of the Innuits will take Henry to where Miner & K. are to-morrow taking my team of dogs & returning same day. I give Henry a [[?sheving]] Knife to get Miner to allow him [[?]] to accompany him [[?midway]] to Oo-pung-ne-wing.
More oral History of Frobisher Expedition of 158?
A talk with Mother Pe-ta-to!
In Igloo of 7th Encampment Saturday evening.
At my invitation this good old Innuit has come in, this house
h7-m45 PM - She now is seated on the dias of the Igloo while in front of me - many Innuits present.
Did you ever "set-down" on Kod-lu-arn Island or have you ever seen it?
"Never set down on the Island but have been ^[[near]] there many times - Innuits do not set down (live) on that Island.
What do Innuits call it Kod-lu-narn for?
Because White men lived there a long time ago built a ship & died [[strikethrough]] there [[/strikethrough]] [[?"Ouocked"]] (froze to death) there. The white men took the vessel ^[[wh. they built on Kod-lu-narn]] around to Ne-pou-e-ti-sup-bing put in masts
How many masts did the ship have? Muk-ko (two)[[strikethrough]]] Was [[/strikethrough]] As Koo-Jes-se was my interpreter (who was assisted by Henry) I allowed him to have a talk with Pe-ta-to. I requested K. to assertin of her if there ever was a time when ships caqme here. Pe-ta-to said on long, long time ago 1st time [[?Attonseu]] (one} ship came here - the next year anna su - adlo (many ships) came here & made anchorage very near [[?opening ?nearing]], Ne-oun-te-lik & Kod-lu-narn. At the time
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April 19, 1862, page 514 of Hall's book. The "oral history" conversation here is related on pp 475 - 477 of Hall's book as quotation from his diary of a conversation with Petato on December 16th 1861.
