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[[strikethrough]]?[[/strikethrough]] In going up this Bay the dogs could be urged little faster than a walk, indeed they often refused to go at all without one went ahead ^[[ calling them ]].   They are in truth in a starving condition.  I don ot think they have had 2 lbs of food each since leaving Oo-pung-ne-wing.  The trip up the Bay by Toong-wine && Ming-u-toon wh. I made on Sat & + was too severe for them considering their condition at the time.  It is astonishing what an amount of hard work Innuit dogs will do on a trifle of food.  This trifle should be supplied to them on regular intervals. It is well I did not start at an earlier day for certainly there would have been no possibility of securing anything equivalent to their necessities.  It will be quite fortunate for the dogs, me & my Company ^[[too]] if even now, we get what food is required to sustain all.
After my return this PM from up Beauty Bay, I proceeded out about 1/6 of a mile from Igloo & made PM Obs. on getting back found that Tu-nuk-de-lien & "Jennie" had been overwhelmed by the house falling in.  The canvass top to Igloo had drawn down the heat of the Sun by wh. the snow walls were weakened: - Consequences = one spiral tier with canvass top fell in covering bedding & every thing else within with ruins.  While engaged putting things to rights Koo-jes-se returned from Sealing his dog dragging 2 seals after it.  One was a young Seal that he had found by Seal Igloo partly devoured by a Fox wh. had captured it.  I was not aware before that Foxes hunt out Seal-Igloos for catching young Seals.  Koo-jes-se informed me that they get almost as many as Polar Bears.
Sharkey had been out after young Seals all day.  He returned this eve with one young Seal - He found 9 other Igloos, hooked than number of young Seals but they made out to get away from him.  The Seal wh Koo-jes-se caught proves to
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to be unfit for our eating.  We deeply regret this as our Walrus & Seal provision is nearly out.  Koo-jes-se says that the Seal Flippers were frozen so that it could not get into its [[strikethrough]] ?hold [[/strikethrough]] hole leading down into Tarrio (Sea-water) by wh. means he caught it.  This is something new to me a seal freezing its flippers!
To night Sharkey went through the usual ^[[Innuit]] forms with hi young Seal before cutting it up - that is he sprinkled water upon.  Some form of this is gone through with by the Innuits on getting all or  nearly all kinds of game.  When a Walrus is captured if they have no water in their skins (bladders) bags (wh they carry ^[[on wh to quench their thirst having it]] nest to their skin at their backs to keep contents from freezing) they take up a handful of snow, squeeze it until a drop of water falls upon the head of the Walrus when it is ready to be cut up.  Not a bit will the cut till this form is gone through with.  The "cutting up" wh. is always done on the ice (floe) by wh they secure the Walrus is attended by a feast of its warm flesh.  To-night we are happy to make this meal that instead of following along up Bay of Frobisher on this side, I & my Company cross over the ice to the Long Island, called by Innuits "ki-ki-tuk-ju-a" (wh is in the middle of the Bay [[strikethrough]] ? ? [[/strikethrough]] & thence over the ice to "kin-gaite" proceeding up (on the ice, of course) by Coast to the termination of Bay & return on this (NE) side.  This change in my plan is mainly on account of there being a better prospect of seeing Seals & for our & dogs sustenance; besides this important matter I am desirous of exploring Ki-ki-tuk-ju-a & Kin=gaite Coast.  Ki-ki-tuk-ju-a lies nearly W. of the (6thz0 Enc.  To-day Sharkey while sealing, saw Innuits in that direction of Ki-ki-tuk-ju-a.  [[strikethrough]]?In ?following[[/strikethrough]] We shall probably [[?call ?on]] them to-morrow as I intend to push on in the Morning.  This Eve I ascended the  height of the peninsula by wh. we arfe encamped: Kin-gaite looked grand - indeed ^[[more]] grandure was mingled on the view!
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Transcription Notes:
Toongwine is Jones's Cape. Ming-u-toon is mentioned in the heading on page 368, but not in the text. Igloo collapse described on page 512 of Hall's book.