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Oo-pung-ne-wing
1st Enc
3 day out
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Thursday April 3d 1862
AM -1[[degree symbol]] NE Gale furious - accompanied by snow
M +3[[degree symbol]] NE " " " " " [[dittos for: NE Gale furious - accompanied by snow]]
PM +10[[degree symbol]] NE " " " " " [[dittos for: NE Gale furious - accompanied by snow]]
During this night wind shifted to the N E blowing a severe gale. The air filled with ^[[falling]] drift snow.
Of course Smith & his party for the ship could not start - neither could I think of starting on my journey up the Bay. [[strikethrough]] neither with [[/strikethrough]] in such a Gale. Had it been a fine or fair day I should probably have spent it here as I am desirous of getting sight for Time (Long.) & taking Solar bearings from this point. If weather should be fair to-morrow shall push on so the time is brief for me to depend on the ice of this Bay as basis of my operations.
IX o'clock night - the above was written a little later than 12 Meridian. I have a record of regret now to make. The gale of to-day has been increasing & violent. To-night the ice is thundering in our ears.  Even near our Igloo it is groaning, crunching, cracking from the fury of the storm. I fear the basis of my exploring excursion up the Bay - the ice - is about giving way. While I write this a constant reverberation of thunderings fill the air. The ice outside of the Island must be now on the move its ponderous fields being ploughed through by the small Islands off shore. But I am resigned as I reflect the High & Almighty One of All [[strikethrough]] that[[guess]] [[/strikethrough]] undone[[guess]] & controls these matters.
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I never witnessed a more Hurrican like storm as to make as at times to-day. I went out at 3 PM & attempted to make for the Igloos some 10 to 15 rods N.E. of the one I am in. I gave up after repeated trials. As I feared the storm I was actually thrown back by it. The force to do this must certainly be equivalent to many pounds per square fee of surface.  The air filled with snow driven into one's face so powerfully that it might be said to be like powdered glass.
Koo-jes-se tells me to-night that the Innuits all know that the land on wh. Kin-gaite is located & also Knew-yum-mi-uke & all the places he has visited is on one big Island. I asked him how the Innuits knew this? The answer Innuits at the Ar-garn-mi-ute say so. [[strikethrough]] Ar-garn-mi-ute [[/strikethrough]] Ar-garn-mio-ute is he says a long way off - to go there have to go up to Tu-nuk-jok-ping (Northumberland Inlet) - then go up a deep Bay, then overland to a big Fresh water lake, larger than the Bay we are now in thence to [[strikethrough]] tarrion[[guess]] [[/strikethrough]] to tarrio (Salt water) where the tide rises quick thence ^[[a long way off.]] His father has seen said Fresh water Lake.  Cannot see land across it. Colored stones same as Supungers[[guess]] (beads) around this lake. Big Icebergs in this Lake. The Innuits near Padly[[guess]] can see land on the other side tarrio that is from the high land near Pudly can see Greenland when very clear weather. At Ar-garn-mi-uke in winter no Sun Innuits go out sealing by light of the Moon. The Oo-ming-m^[[ [[?]] ]]ung[[guess]] (Musk Ox) there. Near We-ko Island another large fresh water Lake where Innuits carry their Ki-as to kill took-too. -  have seen an Innuit that told him Koo-jes-se all about it.

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