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Sledge & Boat ^[[exploring]] trips April 1 to Aug 8th 1862
By C. F. Hall
April 1st to May 21st (Sledge) = 50 days
June 7 to June 10th ( " [[ditto for: (Sledge)]] ) = 4 " [[ditto for: Days]]
" [[ditto for: June]] 14 " " [[dittos for: to June]]   17th ( " [[ditto for: Sledge]] ) = 4 "
[[ditto for: Days]]
" [[ditto for: June]] 22 " [[ditto for: to]] 28th (   " [[ditto for: Sledge]] ) = 7 " [[ditto for: Days]]
" [[ditto for: June]] 30th " [[ditto for: to]] Aug.  8th (Sledge & boat) = 40 " [[ditto for: Days]]
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Total days = = 105 " [[ditto for: Days]]
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Copy of journal of F. L. McClintock ^[[in relic[[guess]] Blue Book; 18553]] July 12th 1853
"July 12/53 encamped upon Point Nias at 4-40 AM - found our "2 day" depot safe, also Sir Edward Parry's parchment record wh. List Pine's party had dug up from beneath the monument after several hours' labor - the following is a copy, returning the same No. of words in each line:
"This was deposited in the Month
of June 1820, by a party belonging
to His Brittannic Majesty;s ships
Hecla & Griper
wh. wintered in a Harbor of [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]]
this Island in La[[?]] 74[[degree symbol]]-17[[symbol]] - 15[[symbol]] Long. 110 - 47 W."
Edward Sabin [[signed]] A.D. 1819-20 [[signed]] W. E. Parry"
XXXXXXX ' I [says McC] was highly gratified at finding the site of Sir E. Parry's encampment when here in June 1821. It is close to the beach & very near our own. We recognized it by the stones arranced for keeping down the sides of the [[strikethrough]] stones [[/strikethrough]] tents; a few large ones were placed within as if they had served for ^[[seats]] [[strikethrough]] seats [[/strikethrough]] or pillows; We picked up several pieces of white-line, rope-yarn [[strikethrough]] & wood [[/strikethrough]] & wood; ^[[&]] whilst enjoyed picking up them, the men made a still further & more startling discovery - the narrow ^[[rimmed]] whale of Sir E. Parry's Cart have left tracks which are [[underlined]] still wonderfully distinct in the soft wet earth thinly coated with Moss!! [[/underlined]] In one place these cart tracks are continuous for 30 yards, & they are also very distinct [[strikethrough]] in the soft white [[?]] [[?]]  [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined]] where the cart having come from the eastward, turned up to the encampment. [[/underlined]]
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I measured the distance between the tracks - several places; it buries an inch owing to the play of the wheels but the [[strikethrough]] difference [[/strikethrough]] distance from center to center is five feet eight inches & a  half.  [[underlined]] No lichens have grown upon the upturned stones, & some them deep beds in the soil where they had rested ere Parry & men removed them, are generally distinct; in two or three cases the form is still so perfect that we recognized at a glance the stone to wh. each belonged. The astonishing freshness of these traces after a lapse of 33 years, compel us to assign a very considerable antiquity to the circles of stones & other Esquimaux remains wh. we find sparringly strewed along the Southern shores of the Parry Group since they are always Moss covered & often indistinct" [[/underlined]] ("Eng. Blue-Book [[encircled]] 581 & 582 [[/encircled]] (1855) Arctic Papers
[[strikethrough]] Again [[/strikethrough]] ^[[Predeeding this]] McClintock said (1852 Oct.) "About 10 O'Clk Sir Edward Parry came upon Pt. Nias was very distinctly [[strikethrough]] visible [[/strikethrough]] seen resembling a beautiful white pyramid of much larger size than it really is - The sun shining upon the snow collected on its southern side gave it this appearance. When we landed at half an hour after noon, the wind had freshened, & temperature fallen to -18[[degree symbol]] Proceeded up to the cairn and dug away the snow from about it; we found that so much of its S. sided had fallen that its height was reduced to seven ^[[7]] feet.  [[underlined]] No lichens had grown [[strikethrough]] upon [[/strikethrough]] upon any of the stones forming this cairn; [[/underlined]] & such portions of them ^[[as]] had been embedded in the soil until removed by Parry's men still retained their darker colour. [[underlined]] Had I not known that it was built in 1820, I certainly would have assigned it a newer more present date.! [[/underlined]] [[encircled]] 592 [[/encircled]] Blue-Book 1855
Journal of Lieut Pim[[guess]] & Mr Roche. "Thursday [[strikethrough]] 1st [[/strikethrough]] 2d June 1853 - h 4 - m 40 AM started & at 6-45 reached Point Nias.  Pitched the tent & set the people to work to find Sir Edwards Parry's record. Removed the Cairn, stone by stone, & after 3 h. 20 m labor found the cylinder, the tin case 6 inches long by 3.4 inch diameter - [[underlined]] was quite free from rust & the enclosed parchment in perfect [[strikethrough]] state [[/strikethrough]] preservation" [[/underlined]] [ [[strikethrough]] Re [[/strikethrough]] Contents [[?]] of same as above copied H] 
Blue Book [[encircled]] 682 [[/encircled]] 1855

Transcription Notes:
Edited: per instructions, when applicable, replaced symbols with text, 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 Sir Wm E. Parry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Parry_(explorer) F. L. McClintock discovered the fate of the Franklin Expedition (that Hall was looking for) an d wrote of it in his book: "The Voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic Seas: A Narrative of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and His Companions."