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days - The object of his journey there was to see M-garny & to obtain seal skins for making me water proof Boots (Kum-ings) for my use in my trip up Bay of Frobisher. I allowed him to take my rifle as E. thought that he might get shots of some Ni-noos (Polar Bears). My arrangement was to have his sledge on my trip. For unknown reasons (unknown to me Capt. B. & his noo-li-an-a) he had not up to the time of my starting. We have thought of various reasons why he has been delayed. The final conclusion on our part is that U-garng has exercised his commanding influence wh. he has over E. in having him remain there to  hunt young Seals. Unless some accident had happened to Ebierbing, he is inexcusable for such conduct as he knew of my urgency in his early return besides he knew well the expectation of Capt. B. in having the use of his dogs in taking the Boats & whale gear over to O0-pung-ni-wing.
There being a sledge belonging to the "George Henry" that I could have on getting to Oo-pung-ni-wing. I determined to start on the day I had set some time since taking the opportunity of transporting by outfit at the same time of Capt; B's sending the 1st Whale Boat to Bay of Frobisher. - Lamb with a party of 4 Innuits & large team of dogs in addition to my Greenlander was a sufficient guarantee that Boat & my traps would be taken to Oo-pung-ne-wing saftley & in good time. Sharkey (Kar-nei-ung) the laughing Innuit, had come over with Lamb to accompany me on my journey. Young Smith who is of my Company was already aboard
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the G. Henry prepared for the start.
At VII O'Clock AM we started from the ship having received the kindly good wishes of Capt. B of my success in accomplishing all [[strikethrough]] this [[/strikethrough]] the work I desire on this trip. A moment before start, I sighted to the mountains across the Bay wh. was the Course for the 1st 5 miles As I have a Book where I keep my Log of proceeding I will only refer to that, keeping this for general incidents &c. Our team of dogs was a good one numbering 19, all good order & age. A few moments showed that there would be no trouble in the dogs accomplishing their work of drawing the load to Oo-pung-ne-wing before night. Tuk-oo-li-too who has been of such great assistance me in making preparations for this journey had expected [[strikethrough]] to me [[/strikethrough]] the evening before my starting that she would see me in the morning to [[strikethrough]] bid [[/strikethrough]] bid me good bye; but as she had overslept her time for it, I felt disappointed. After making 3/4 of a mile on looking back I saw Ook-sin trudging along after us, our quick movement leaving him in the rear. My eye caught another Innuit still farther back, but I supposed the same to belong to Oo-pung-ne-wing Company. On making the Sea ice (a short distance from the ship we struck upon the low land part of the Island where the Innuits had their Igloos this Winter & thence passed to a narrow lakelet of near one mile in length running Westerly to the tide water of Rescue Bay) 
One of the ship's company calling my attention to the fact that Tuk-oo-li-too was away in the distance behind, heading on after us. I knew at once that the noble hearted woman was anxious & determined to see me in accordance

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Edited: per instructions, added inserts as appropriate, added omitted text, added spaces between underlined and strikethrough, validated guessed wording (some), removed end of page from second page not required, corrected some wording, and other format changes See page 497ff in Hall's book.