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this morning what he was intending to do? A few of the In- 

 nuits concert and act without saying one word to me. I will try 

 and settle accounts with them when I get to the ship, especially 

 with Koojesse. This I write in my note-book as I stand on this 

 rocky, tide-washed island, in the midst of a snow-storm, every 

 thing around closed from my view. Now the thickness lifts a 

 little, I proceed to triangulate. Start 8 20 A.M. Keally I never 

 took such insolence from any white man, nor will I while I have 

 a right arm to defend my honor, as I took from Koojesse when 

 he told me a few moments ago that I could stop and go along 

 down Kingaite side. * * * * He knows that I am in his 

 and his Innuit friends' power, and he uses it. * * * * But 

 I am silent in words ; a thundering, however, is going on within. 

 Its mutterings will be kept till I get to the ship, if I ever do. I 

 must say that I believe my life is in danger ; but God is with me 

 here and every where. If I die at the hands of this treacherous 

 people, I die in faith that I am in the performance of my duty. 

 God deliver me from such scenes as I have witnessed among the 

 men Innuits I have with me. Consultations, savage looks, are 

 now and then to be seen. * * * * 



" The sooner I am back the better. There may be a time when 

 I can again enter this bay to do the work for which I engaged my 

 present company, but it will have to be with a company of civil- 

 ized men. 



" Nine A.M., now crossing toward a long, high island that 

 trends in the same direction as Ki-ki-tuk-ju-a (Frobisher's Far- 

 thest). The head of Frobisher Bay not seen now, the sea or wa- 

 ter of the bay to the northwest being the horizon. A remarkable 

 sand or fossil mountain island, by Kingaite side, two miles off at 

 our right, bearing W.N.W. by compass ; I can not determine its 

 true character with £ spy.' A line of islands now seen that runs 

 across Frobisher Bay from Frobisher's Farthest to Kingaite side. 

 The trend I will determine soon, and make a record of it. 



" Snow-squall continued but four minutes. Very cloudy. Sun 

 shining occasionally on the mountains each side of Frobisher Bay. 

 * * * * Stop at meridian on an island after passing through 

 a channel, the island of the group running from Frobisher's Far- 

 thest to Kingaite, and here ascended a high hill to triangulate. 



* * * As we came up the channel between the isl- 

 ands that lie across the Bay of Frobisher, found the tide (which 

 was ebbing) to run very swiftly. Made no headway for full half 



