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Thu. Jan 22 -14.
I've been unusually lazy today. Turned in about one p.m., was called for dinner at four but remembered that "posje" (seal) was the main constituent of the meal, and being rather deeply entangled in the web of Morpheus anyhow, did not get up. When next I awoke it was one a.m. Friday. During my map travellers, - Mukapinguah, Sipru, and Kipsangwah, the man whose fingers Doc amputated recently, arrived. Sipru and Mukapinguah came up to be here early in the game of starting for Crocker Land. They have been walrus-hunting down at Soolkwatee. Mukapinguah has killed; Sipru has not had any success as yet.
Fri. Jan 23-14.
I wrote letters from one a.m. to Ten a.m. as Hendrick Ohlsen planned to leave today to carry the mail south. It was rather windy and dark, however, so he postponed his de-parture.
Today I ran the plant for several hours and again a number of people were made sick by the gas! I