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[[boxed]] 6th Day out Still at Oo-pung-ne- wing 1st Enc. [[/boxed]] [[image - cross]] April 6th 1862 AM +7[[degree symbol]] N.W. Light [[underlined]] Fine [[/underlined]] - Kin-gaite plainly ^[[is visible this Morn]] M -10[[degree symbol]] N E Fresh Fair PM -5[[degree symbol]] N E Fresh Fair At 7 o'clock this morning the Innuit "Bo-ny-Squath" harnessed the dogs & left for a load of the Walrus out on the floe. This AM I buckled on my Cronometer & went upon the height of Oo-pung-ne wing taking along my sextants & Compass. Made observations there for Time Variation & sun bearings. "Bo-ny-Squach" (a name given him by the sailors) returned with a load of meat at XI AM. Henry then took charge of the dogs & drove out for another load. Several Innuits were up this Morning by daylight & went out on the Walrus hunt. Lamb accompanied them. At 2 P.M. Lamb came in & reported the news that two more walrus had been captured 2 miles out from the land floe. The dogs that were sent out after another load were used in getting the 2 walrus from the drift ice to the the fixed. Now a feasting time. This PM went out again to the apex of this Island & took sights. I commenced to take lunars, but my sextants are so imperfect found it quite impossible to make reliable observations of that kind. When I returned found that Ebierbing had arrived with his team of dogs having a load of Capt B. Whaling gear. He reported that Smith was on the way with his Boat. One hour after Smith arrived but had left the boat 3 on 4 miles from here on an Island. [[end page]] [[start page]] [[boxed]] 1862 Apr 6 [[image - cross]] [[/boxed]] as he found the snow quite deep & soft there so that concluded to leave it & bring it to-morrow. "Beverly" came with Smith bringing his bag of clothing & bedding thinking of stopping with the Innuits also Smith after all my precaution, took one of the dogs that I had hired of "Jim Crow". He says he did not know it till he had got nearly to the Ship. I do not place much confidence in his apology. As Koo-jes-se caught a Walrus yesterday he will not start to-day on a journey as it would be against Innuit custom. Ebierbing says that he got back from Oo-kood-larn the day after I left the ship (that is Wednes. Apr 2d) - Says that Mgarng made him moving[[guess]] as he did. To day the wife of Shev-ek-koo gave me a fragment of a brick. I asked her where she got it? She replied at King-way ( wh. is a place in Northumberland Inlet) She got it of an English Whaler. She has had it a long time - used it in scouring her brass ornaments. See it is what the Innuits remember well where such come from. I asked her if it did not come from Kud-lu-nard? She replied positively that it did not but such pieces are at Kudlenarn [[strikethrough]] she said [[/strikethrough]]. To night Koo-jes-se gave ^[[the head of]] loeng[[guess]] Innuits ^[[family have]] a piece of Walrus meat & blubber to match. He had little piles all ready as each came to the inner entrance they stooped down & received what was apportioned to them. An-na-wa ^[[being one of the successful ones yesterday]] according to Custom came [[strikethrough]] up[[guess]] [[/strikethrough]] into the Igloo & eat a meal of Walrus Beef. Ebierbing returns to-morrow to the ship to get a load of Whale line but Capt. B. designs sending over. To-morrow I expect to resume my trip up the Bay
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