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Dec 16th
Hope to start Today
but is dark & foggy
Dec 18th
Sept about 10 o'clock
Dec 20
arr Cape York
Dec 21st left C York
Dec 30th
arrived C. Siddon
after hard slow pressed,
Folies lost 3 dogs for
starvation & cold.
Jan 6th
arrived Tasniak Tonight
just bfore midnight.
Rosmussen had been two
4 hrs. Okklaw came just at
midnight. Froma R.H. Koch
& family of trader Nielsen
up to see us,
Shall wait few days, for
as our own sledges have
not arrived yet and dogs
are very tired!