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I had ordered Hans to endeavour to
procure Myosu to assist him in hunting.
- a most timely thought - for the mornings
work made them receive the invitation
as a great favour. Hans got his share
of the meat and returned to the
brig accompanied by the boy who is
now under my care on board. This
imp for he is full of the devil has taken
always a great fancy to my kicks and
cuffs [always] most liberally bestowed when
a fork or a tea spoon is unfindable. He
is very happy - [and] but so wasted by hunger
that the duty of fattening him will be
a heavy burden. Poor little fellow. Stern
hunter as he already is, the lines of his
face are soft and childlike. I think
that we understand one another, taking
in Hans as a third party, better than
our incongruities would imply - Certainly
this poor, poor devil born to toil and
[self extinction] perhaps an untimely death - half starved yet now
sleeping wrapped up in a deer skin at
feet; has more of sympathy from me
than the hard ungrateful men who
surround him - They give me lip service
- bland enough - but I have had my lesson -
they cant do without me - and I
know them.

Hans brings about 80 lbs of
Walrus meat and [10?] of Matak - our
sick were fed at once. Bonsall and my
self took a greedy toll upon the [chippins?]
which followed the ax as we cut the
nights allowance from the frozen joint.

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The Therm is now -52^o.5
The sick are not as bright as this relief ought
to make them. The truth is, they are