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[[boxed]] 1862 Apr 14 Mon [[/boxed]] to redeem his fair form as it stood in my estimation when I selected him to be on of my present company. I have told him that he could remain trusting that he would constantly show the true point of the man required for Arctic service. I remain here one day longer. To-morrow I go up the Bay by wh. I have my present enc. (about 9 miles) to determine the extent of an inlet that makes up ^[[from]] [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] the east side of said Bay. The inlet commences near the tupiks I visited this last winter. To-night I had Tu-nuk-de-lirn make a soup of permican & Borden's meat biscuit sufficient in quantity for the whole company. The Innuits are very fond of the soup. [[boxed]] 5th Enc [[?]] are 3d [[/boxed]] Tuesday Apr 15th 1862 AM -0[[degree symbol]] NW [[underlined]] Fine [[/underlined]] M -29[[degree symbol]] S.E. Light Fair P.M. +3[[degree symbol]] Light Thick Clouds This morning started out with a trip to Ken-nek-tu-a^[[re]]-chun, the place up the Bay by wh. I have my encampment (where I found tupiks this winter) My object was to determine the [[?]] of the inlet v[[?]]ing up on the E - side, commencing 9 miles up. Sharky & Koo-jes-se signifying that they would not need their two seal-dogs to-day, I was enabled to make out a team of 8 dogs. Having breakfasted on cold "chunks" of hard permican, & a [[strikethrough]] hot [[/strikethrough]] dish of [[underlined]] hot - coffee [[/underlined]] (?) (made by putting into ^[[hot water]] a handful of Borden's meat biscuit) I & Henry were [[end page]] [[start page]] [[boxed]] 1862 Apr 15 Tues [[/boxed]] well prepared for the day's trip. ^[[At 7 - 52 23 started -]] I made my course through the W. channel leading into the Bay proper & arrived in just 2 hours [[strikethrough]] to the [[/strikethrough]] at Ken-nek-tu-arc-chum[[guess]] ^[[a distance of 9 miles]] where I took observations with both sextants the meridional altitude of the sun. This completed, struck easterly about 2 miles & thence northerly ^[[little less than]] 3 miles where I found the Bay on that side terminated. At once the dogs were turned back to the place where I ^[[had]] made noon observations. Having made a lunch on Permican & Borden's pulverized meat biscuit strapping to my side the 5 lb chronometer ^[[pocket sextant]] & artificial horizon - & to my back my telescope - my pockets coating[[guess]] 3 lbs mercury, Azimuth compass & in my hands the compass tripod, I was prepared for ascending the mountain by us. As I wished my large sextant also & could not well carry more. I directed my attendant Henry to take it in hand & follow me. To make the dogs secure we capsized the sledge & place "half-hitches" about their necks & ^[[then]] made our way over the coast ice on to the land & commenced the ascent of the Mountain. I supposed on reaching the top of the Mountain I should be enabled to sight the Bay on the other side where it runs up N. [[strikethrough]] & thus [[/strikethrough]] when with my sextant I could connect several points with a Sun bearing that I intended to make. The ascent of that Mountain was the most fatuiging[[guess]] of any that I ever mounted. However I found on the Mountain's side something that out far to compensate the laborious work little dishes in the rocks filled with water! How glorious the draughts that we made of that water! The 1st water of the season found made by the melting of the ice & snow by the Sun. On arriving at the top of the Mountain I was disappointed in not finding that it ^[[did not]] overlook [[strikethrough]] ed [[/strikethrough]] the Bay in the extension above. But yet the view of this Bay south - ^[[&]] of the Bay of Frobisher as it extended
