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5 December, Sunday.
Clear night. Overcast day, but thinly so at midday. Temp.min -4°;9a.m.0°;2p.+4°
Calm or very light air stirring. Ice 24½"
Walked across head of bay and to snow-drift glacier with January. 4±mi.
Temp. at S.E.¼ bay -14°C (+7°F), off the gla-
cier -13°C (+8½°F), at ship +4°.
Breakfast, fried bacon, beans tc as usual
Dinner, roast beef, dehydro potatoes, plum
duff tc as usual. The cook put some
corned beef into the roast beef stew.
Peter told me that my name a-
mong the Eskimos was Naligoksuah,
meaning the big master. At first
they called me Doctoruak, but they
knew only medical doctors up here
and they (or he?) changed the term
to avoid confusion of ideas. At E-
tah they often spoke of me as Naligok-
paluak or the little master, though
I do not know why they should have called
him little.