[Info from: Hall “Book A”, dispatched to Lady Franklin under covering letter dated 9 Jan 1871]
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Continuation of the (talk with Koo-loo-a Thursday April 9th 1868 [North Oo-glit Isles]) Told him all about what a strange man he had seen.
After the death of Ki-a, Koo-loo-a thought he would go deer hunting in that part of the country where Ki-a had seen the strange person, as he believed he might find something that would be useful to him thereabouts and as he wanted some wood with which he might make arrows + spear heandles [sic] between Ar-lang-naz-u + the NW Cape of Melville Peninsula. he [sic] hunted but found nothing that he sought for. Here I asked if he
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(Koo-loo-a) during his search found any piles of stone called In-nook-shoo, by the natives. He replied that he did. I then got Rae’s chart + placed it before us Koo-loo-a soon comprehended its nature + then said that the extreme NW part of the Melville Penn + sea by it of the chart was not as the land + water really are. He said that quite a large river runs from the eastward nearly parrelel [sic] with Adge-go (Fury + Hecla Straight [sic]) + empties its waters into a Bay very near to Cape Ellice of Rae’s discovery in 1847 Near the river south side of it Koo-loo-a found a monument of stone on the crest of a piece of rising ground + a little to one side west of the monument he found where a curious kind of cache had been made of stones. The cache had been opened + the stone all thrown on one side. The monument + the cache stones all shewed [sic] a great degree of freshness.
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He did not think they were the work of any Innuit. He looked carefully about where the cache had been made for the object for the object [repetition in original] to learn what had been deposited there. No signs that any meat had ever been put there. He does not think that any Innuit had ever before been so high up from Ar-lang-na-zhu (Garry Bay of Rae’s chart). Koo-loo-a was with Kia on the deer hunt when the latter saw the strange man though not present at the time when Kia sighted + followed the strange man. A short time before Kia saw the stranger man [man crossed through in original] in black clothes Koo-loo-a felt thirsty + came to a lake. He had laid himself down to take a draught of water + at the very instant he was placing his face down to it he heard a loud crack which he thought it must be of a gun for when small + living at Too-noo-nee (Ponds Bay)
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he had become familiar with the reports of the guns of white men that came there to kill whales. He was at the time so far from the sea that it could not have been the noise of ice cracking. Ki-a was very particular in telling him all about the strange man he had seen on Koo-li-a [sic] + Ki-a meeting each other. The strange man was tall + carried some long thing on his shoulder + walked very fast. He had a cap on his head that was independent of his coat but there was a hood to the long dark coat he had on. Ki-a kept himself hid behind the rocks + followed the strange man —— for some time. Not long after Ki-a saw the strange man the he (K) thought must be an Indian Ki-a heard a loud crack which made him think of ice cracking but the sea too far off to hear so plain.
Noo-glit [sic: ie N. Oo-glit] Isles
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Friday April 10th 1868
This another gloriously fine day succeeding days of cloudless ones. VIIIh – 30m A.M. – Now Ar-tung-un or rather as now called “Mitter Hall” the native with whom I exchanged name with on my last visit to Ig-loo-lik last year + Too-loo-ar-chu present in our Ig-loo. The former with his family removed from Ping-it-ka-lik to this place yesterday. With Ar-tung-un I am now to have a talk. I may here say that both the men I have just written of above are old men who remember well Parry + Lyons visit to Ig-loo-lik Parry was the attata (or father) so called, of Too-loo-ar-chu + as he (T.) says Parry wanted much to have his parents consent that he should go home with him (Parry) to England. Too-loo-ar-chu 1st saw Parry + Lyon at Nee-ee-u-new-ju-a
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(Winter Island) Tuk-koo-li-too my Interpreter.
I now ask Ar-tung-un if he ever heard of Et-ker-lin (Indians) being in this country. Tuk-oo-li-too breaks in telling me I have great —– from Ar-tung-un as he is relating the answer to my question. Ar-tung-un says many years ago a little while before Koo-pa + his companions go [sic: got] so frightened by Et-ker-lin many natives were then stopping at a place called Ing-near-ing up a large Bay to the N.E. of Ig-loo-lik where one night in the fall of the year just before the time for snow the dogs commenced barking furiously when many Innuits sprang out of their beds + went out of their tents to see what was the cause. Some four or five Et-ker-lin (Indians) were seen passing along each conveying in his hand something like a stick
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It was not so dark but that their figures were distinctly seen cutting sharply the back ground which was the sky. Ar-tung-un was not one of the natives that saw these Indians for he was too late getting out of bed but not thinking it possible that there could be any Kob-lu-nas about he thought the strangers must be Indians. The Innuits were all so frightened that the next day they removed from Ing-near-ing to an island Ki-ki-tuk-che-uk. Following the removal many Innuits together went deer hunting when two of their number Ar-tung-un one of the 2 stopped while the others went on – stopped to hunt deer together. I am here stopped by Tuk-er-li-too who says she has made a mistake – The mistake is this that it was the next spring following the great fright by the Indians that Ar-tung-un + many Innuits went deer
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hunting on the main land near Og-big-seer-ping above South Oo-glit Isle). The two men or natives Ar-tung-un + an Innuit now dead Al-er-gaite were walking along when all at once they heard the bang of a gun as Ar-tung-un thought for he had heard guns fired many times when Parry + Lyons’ ships were at Ig-loo-lik — then looked around to see what made the noise + by + by heard another gun report when they saw the smoke as of a fired gun not far off arise from behind some land + immediately 2 took-too (deer) came running swiftly from that same place from whence they heard the gun + saw the smoke. Then Ar-tung-un + his companion were terribly frightened + ran to their tents + at once removed their families from the main land to south oo-glit [sic] by the means of their ki-as. The
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distance to Ing-near-ing 2 sleeps or 3 days from this Island, N. oo-glit Never saw anything more of those Et-ker-lin Now Ar-tung-un tells about his son Koo-pa + other Innuits that saw Et-ker-lin.
One time (not a great while after the above) Ar-tung-un + Al-er-gaite went deer hunting at the same place where they went deer hunting before together when they heard the gun reports + saw the smoke at the last report. The particular place Ar-tung-un now marks out on Parry’s Chart + he shows the place to be by one of the two or 3 small lakes that extend to the westward of the very large lake I discovered + passed over last year on my return to Repulse Bay from Ig-loo-lik. The place is near the lines of mountains Parry has upon his Chart + on a parrallel [sic] with Og-big-seer-ping or as Parry calls it – Agwiperwik. They killed 2 deer + made a cache of them
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+ returned to their tents when they sent 3 boys after them. The boys were Koo-pa, In-nu + Ki-a (the latter (Ki-a) Innuman’s brother) A correction; Al-er-gaite was the one who returned to the tent 1st that is he got back before Ar-tung-un for the latter remained out over night – to watch a deer that he had shot with an arrow which remained sticking in the deer’s side. Al-er-gaite was the one that sent the 3 boys after the 2 deer. When Ar-tung-un got back the boys had returned – they the boys had returned without the deer meat – had left the meat dogs + all for they had seen 4 Et-ker-lin near where the 2 deer had been deposited. After the deer had been put apart upon the backs of the dogs + a part prepared + put upon their the boys own shoulders they saw upon a hill not far off 4 Et-ker-lin each with something
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like a stick in his hand + heard a noise like foxes then great laughter. The fox-noise + great laughter the boys did not hear until they had thrown away everything + were running away. Before the boys ran they saw the largest or tallest one of the Et-ker-lin who was very tall make motions with his right hand which was raised high over his head. The motions were swinging motions from the North toward the South. Soon as the frightened boys got back + reported what they had seen the Innuits were all alarmed + the lifting stone was resorted to which said the 4 strange beings were not Et-ker-lin
At this moment XI-15 A.M. Tuk-oo-li-too asks me if Franklin had any dogs about his ships? Of course I am surprised at this question for Ar-tung-un was telling was telling [repetition in original] about what
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kind of apparel [sic] the 4 Et-ker-lin had on. Ar-tung-un says that a few years ago he was out hunting at Kee-gee-wee a place little back of the line of mountains that run north or westward of Amitoke – on a parrellel [sic] of am-i-toke when two frightened deer ran swiftly by him. Soon a large grey dog came swiftly on their track which the dog followed by scent. When the dog saw him (Ar-tung-un) it stopped. As Ar-tung-un was about to fire an arrow at the beast (the dog) he saw that a short string was about its neck when he carefully unbent his bow + tried to coax the dog to him Kob-lu-na way. The dog appeared playful but was too shy to allow Ar-tung-un to catch hold of the string. The dog was following the deer from the North + when Ar-tung-un had tried to catch the dog it ran away to the N.W. as A.
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shows on Parry’s chart. The dog had short hair + it did shine very much something like the one of the dogs Parry + Lyon had though larger. It had short ears. String short only touched the ground. His curiosity so excited about the strangeness of the dog he did not notice what kind of string it was about the dog’s neck. The time that he saw this dog was before Dr Rae came to I-wil-lik the last time.
The 4 or 5 Et-ker-lin at Ing-near-ing were seen before Dr Rae came here the 1st time – the time the 4 Et-er-lin seen by Koo-pa + the other 2 boys was after Dr Rae was here 1st time as Ar-tung-un thinks + remembers. The dog a very small body long thin legs + poor the tail long + curving upwards just like the one Parry had only much larger. That is the dog was the same build or structure or form, but
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while Parry’s was black the dog he saw with string about its neck was grey – like in color one of mine which old See-gar let me have, grey. “Jo” says it surely was a Grey hound from Ar-tung-un’s description. ([p 41 of Journal] see p 141 of Apr 15 more about this dog) Ar-tung-un says they had three dogs on board Parry + Lyon’s ships. Ar-tung-un having said this I turn to pages 297 + 299 of Lyon’s Private Journal + see that there was a large Newfoundland dog – a greyhound belonging to Parry + a terrier “Spark” belonging to Reid on board of the Fury + Hecla.
It is with great exertion that I have kept about today for I have been + now am really sick. (Indeed for several days I have been ailing). I caught a severe cold on the day we laid over at our 1st enct. on the sea ice of Fox Channel at Oo-soo-ark-u then with my sprained leg I am forced to think myself partially if not wholly an invalid.
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Saturday. Apr 11th 1868
The present notes I make morning for not until this morning since early friday night have I been able to rise from my couch. I shall pencil the notes as if made at the date of the heading.
This morning – that is saturday morning – according to my previous arrangement Nut-er-lik accompanied by my servant Frank started off with my sledge + team of dogs for Ig-loo-lik to get a load of walrus meat belonging to Nut-er-lik + Too-goo-lat which meat is for me + party to use on my proposed journey to Fury + Hecla Straight [sic] the western sea – sea of At-koo-lee. Very many calls have I had to day from the now numerous natives here all sympathizing in my sickness. Almost every hour a family from Ping-it-ka-lik arrives here at once coming in to see me + then
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proceeds to erect an Ig-loo + place their household effects into it. My arrival has caused a small village to grow into quite a city. The old woman Ar-na-loo-a of Parry fame called in to day being her 2nd call since her arrival here. She expressed deep sorrow that I was sick + said she greatly desired that I would soon be about again. She says that she was with her husband many years ago when he was hunting deer not a great ways from the mountains west of Arm-i-toke. He was on one side of a pond + she walking on the opposite side. Her husband found a tenting place at the foot of a mountain close by the pond. He found there a large oot-koo-seek painted red + a tin canister of same color + he saw half of another plate down in the water of the pond. There were strong indications that salmon had been cooked
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in the large tin can for there were salmon bones about the can. Everything looked fresh as if done not long before for there was no moss or rust about the tin cans. Yet she + husband thought no one could have left these things there but Parry or some of his men. The large can now at Too-noo-nee-roo-shuk The small one was given to her brother who is now near Ig-loo-lik. There was a fire place of stone by the tent place. She saw these things soon after Ar-tung-un found them. arnalooa saw the tenting place near the foot of the mountain by the lake of the party that must have left the cans and made the fire place. This mountain is some distance to the —— of the wall of mountains that extends far to the Northw—- back or west of Arm-i-toke.
This evening (saturday eve) an Innuit by
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the name of In-nu came in to see me he having just arrived from Ping-it-ka-lik where he + family are stopping I recognized him at once as having seen him at Ig-loo-lik on my visit there last year. Knowing him to be an Innuit who was of the party of the three boys who saw the reported four Et-ker-lin many years ago I raised my head from my couch + asked him if he had ever seen any Et-ker-lin. He answered quickly “Na-o” (No) Following this he hesitated a moment + then corrected himself + said many years ago He + Ki-a + Koo-pa together when after some deer meat where some deer had been killed saw three Et-ker-lin. He then most earnestly + most eloquently described the incident which description was precisely the same (save a few minor points) as Koo-pa had told me at Repulse Bay short time before starting on this journey.
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: April : 12 :: 1868
Now 1h – 00m P.M. + Ar-tung-un (Mitter Hall) present as well as half a dozen other Innuits large + small. I now ask Ar-tung-un about his once finding an oot-koo-seek that once belonged to white men (as told to me 1st by his son Koo-pa now of Repulse Bay + 2nd as told by his wife Ar-na-loo-a yesterday).
3h – 15m = For 2h 15m old Ar-tung-un has been An-koo-ting + no answer yet of my question above. Parry’s chart before him all the time while ankooting his withered hands coming down now + then upon the spread chart so forcibly that I felt alarmed for its fate. I had placed it in our laps for the purpose of his showing the locality where he had found the oot-koo-seek, He is now through with Ankooting + now proceeds to tell about the matter.
Ar-tung-un was hunting took-too one summer a long time ago, one day’s travel
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from the line of mountains estward [sic] (nearly on a parrallel [sic] with the point where Lyon turned back when seeking to find a Pass through the mountains to the western sea in 1823) when he came to where there had been a tenting place – the shape of the tent as shown by the stones that had been used to fasten it down square or oblong, long + narrow. It was not such a tent as the Innuits use. The particular spot near base of a mountain + along side of a small lake.
Along side of the lake he found an oot-koo-seek about 1 foot by 15 inchs [sic] + 18 inchs deep as shown by Ar-tung-un’s measuring with his hand on Parry’s Chart. It was tin + painted red – completely enclosed except a hole in the top of about 3 inchs diameter. Inside were some pieces of salmon bones. Besides this oot-koo-seek he found a round can about the size of a tin kettle hanging by our fire lamp + this was painted red too. No top to this
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but there was some very white tallow in it. Never saw any cans painted like this on Capt Parry’s or on Lyon’s ships. This can was painted all over on the outside while those on Capt Parry’s + on Lyon’s ships were painted only on the tops. Never saw any of the large cans like the square one described above on board Parry’s or Lyon’s ships painted red all over on the outside. All painted only on the tops with letters on the tops. On the other side of the fresh water pond found an earthen stone jug that is as “Jo” say a jug like one Ar-men gave me some seal oil in a little while before we left Repulse Bay which was an earthen stone jug of light color. This jug that Ar-tung-un found had its top broken off. These cans that Ar-tung-un found were not rusty nor was there any moss about them – was very much surprised at the freshness of every thing about them for he certainly thought that nobody but Parry
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or some of his ships companions could have tented there + left those things Along side of the tenting spot was a fire place of 2 stones + which were blacked with smoke. The fire that had been used was the Est-shu-tin [Andromeda tetragona] for a little of it was there in a little pile by the fire place. Everything looked as though it had been done only a little while before. The smoke on the stones would not have been there on simply burning Est-shu-tin more than 2 or 3 years + the wood would have been white + looked very different from what it did in less time says Ar-tung-un. The time when he found these things was before he heard of Dr Rae being at I-wil-lik the 1st time. He heard of Dr Rae being at I-wil-lik the next summer after Dr Rae left which was in 1847. Ar-tung-un does not now think it possible that these things could have been left as he found
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them by Parry or his men for the salmon meat that he found in the large red can would have been gone + everything else would have looked altogether much older than they did. Koo-per + the other 2 natives with him saw the four Et-ker-lin before Ar-tung-un found these things. The place where the Et-ker-lin were seen was not far from where Ar-tung-un found the tenting place + the things now described. Thus much has Ar-tung-un told me as a man speaking without any thought of deception. I can read the man like a book. He means to tell the truth + only the truth.
An hour after the above interview I was present at a seal feast at Nood-loo where was congregated a large company of Innuits + where through with the feast with the aid of my “Jo” I had a talk with Ar-tung-un in presence with all the Innuits there. For the purpose of testing the memory +
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accuracy of old Ar-tung-un I asked him to tell me about the little dog which was on board of Parry + Lyon’s ship. He said the little dog was a great favorite with everybody + was a spotted one. One time a wolf came about the ships + this little dog with Parry’s dog which was a black one ran after the wolf when several white men hastened after the dogs to bring them back. After awhile the men returned bringing Parry’s dog but they could find nothing of the little pet dog so all concluded that the little dog must have been killed + eaten up by the wolf. Next day (continued Ar-tung-un) some of the white men went out to see if they could find out what really had become of the little dog. When they returned they brought the head it being all that they could find of the little dog. He could not remember the name of this dog but on my telling him it
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was “Spark” he then smiled + said it sounded just like it. The old man has not only told the facts about this little dog – a terrier – as related by Lyon whose work I have with me but has told this much more that the dog was spotted + that its head was found. I asked Ar-tung-un if Parry or any of his (Parry’s) people ever had a tent or a party at King-me-toke-big for the purpose of killing ducks in the summer or for any other purpose. He said “No” The reason some Innuits think so is because some beads [crossed out in original and replaced by means of a caret with “beans”] [Marginal note inserted here: “note this error of 1st writing “beads” was corrected in ink the same day the notes here of April 12th were pencilled Hannah having had a talk with Ar-tung-un”)] + what was conjectured to be a Kob-lu-na tenting place were found there. Ar-tung-un said Parry + Lyon used to have hunting parties stationed at Ar-lang-nuk but not farther south.
[Marginal note: “In the orig manuscript all the preceding was in pencil”]
North oo-glit Isles
Monday: Apr: 13: 1868
As the notes I have been making
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since my arrival at this place are of importance but easily effacible [sic] I now commence to make records in ink.
This morning it was found that the ice-floe was passing [possibly “pressing”] in upon the Island from the eastward therefore the walrus hunters were aroused early. Before Vih: All my Igloo had the better half of a very huge walrus on its floor which Too-loo-gat, brother of Ik-ku-men now of Repulse Bay, killed as soon as he got upon the drifting ice.
Soon as the walrus was killed “Jo” took our dogs + drew in the part as indicated above.
I am waiting here at N. oo-glit Isle for the natives to get a sufficient supply of walrus meat for me + party to make a journey to the Northern part of Melville Peninsula adjoining Fury + Hecla Strait + there search for white
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men or such indications as may exist there to prove the truth of the many reliable statements as have been made to me by some of the Innuits now of Repulse Bay but formerly of Ig-loo-lik + by some of the natives of this place. And I am stopping also for more kow (walrus hide) for the dog’s food.
I am glad to be able to note that the Innuits have been quite successful today for they have killed three walruses one Nei-uk or small seal + one ook-jook most of which they have secured by the aid of my team of dogs + the few they have by dragging the carcasses over the thin, broken, drifting floe onto this Island. My energetic “Jo” could not be restrained from entering to the walrus hunt this morning notwithstanding the terrible risk one has to run on venturing on to the crashing, unstable ice on which walrus hunting
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has to be pursued by the natives here. I advised him to “stay at home” as by his going out I might be detained several days here if the ice should sever him + the rest of the party as it did Nood-loo + Too-goo-lat.
Thursday: Apr. 14: 1868
This has been another fine day. Below are obs. I made at the time indicated by chro. wh. is considerable too fast for this Meridian. [See photocopy for calculations]
[un-numbered supplementary page inserted here]
Many day’s after, on our return toward Repulse Bay, when encamped, I had occasion to take some Compass sights. The compass, as usual worked badly when a full investigation followed the purpose being to find to cause. At last I split to pieces the head of the tripod or Compass stand, when behold, imbedded therein was the point of a small steel needle! Thus the unreliable Compass observations opposite.
CF Hall
N. York
Jan 9th 1871
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Tuesday Apr 14/68
N. oo-glit
P.M. observations for Time + variation of compass. Same spot as preceding obs. [See photocopy for page containing calculations]
Notes of the day Tuesday Apr 14/68
Frank and I have left busy to-day preparing kow (walrus hide) for our journey to Fury + Hecla Strait for which place I have purposed to start to-morrow until this
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evening when I concluded to hold on here one day longer. My object of another day’s delay here is that I think it will be well for the mission that has called me in this direction to get all such Innuits as are now about me that know anything about white men having been seen in this part of the country of late years together into my Igloo + then by the aid of my good interpreters Tuk-oo-li-too + E-bier-bing to have a good talk with them. By having them together there will be a good opportunity of one reminding another of certain forgotten incidents that may be brought out + thus a great deal of information of the greatest importance will be gained for recording in this Journal. From what I have learned since arriving here at Oo-glit there cannot be a doubt in my mind that white men have been living + seen in the locality of Fury + Hecla Strait of late years. Before
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I leave here I wish to get all the information I can of the Innuits congregated here as I may not have so good an opportunity again.
By getting such information as I know these natives possess I shall be well prepared to visit the deeply interesting field now opened before me, to wit, the northern part of Melville Peninsula especially that part adjoining Fury + Hecla Strait. There are now 15 Igloos here + containing about 100 occupants. I have told all the men that I wished them to remain on the Island or in other words at home all day to-morrow for the special object to have a grand good talk with me at my Igloo. To all my wishes these natives have most readily responded acquiesingly [sic] since my arrival among them + to none have they more cheerfully than the one desiring them to do as expressed above.
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Wednesday:Apr:15::1868
Now Xh – 10m AM + I have just had a most prompt response to my invitation for certain Innuits to come by my Ig-loo + have a good talk with me.
The following Innuits are present, seated around me on our bed platforms in our capacious Igloo: —
Ar-tung-un
} old people saw Parry
wife Ar-na-loo-a
Ag-loo-ka (Crozier)
} old people saw Parry
Too-loo-ar-chu
Tu-mu-king
In-noo-zhoo
Ek-ke-ra
Koo-loo-a
Oo-shoo = daughter of Tak-kee-lik-e-ta
In-nu
wife Arng-na-look-shoo-shark
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E-bier-bing
wife Tuk-oo-li-too
Pa-pa
wife
Ar-na-loo-a, Ar-tung-un, Ag-loo-ka + Too-loo-ar-choo sit directly or closely around – the meeting promises to be a deeply interesting one.
The talk begins with In-nu “Jo” + “Hannah” Interpreters.
One time long ago In-nu – Ki-a + Koo-pa went after some deer meat. When they got there they saw three (3) men on the top of a hill close by – they had such clothes on that they shook very much in the wind – they all were sure they were not Innuits but thought them to be Et-ker-lin. In-nu so frightened he cannot remember what these men had in their hands. Cannot tell whether the clothes were light or dark. The place
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near the high land West of Arm-i-toke. Between the large lake (Tes-su-e-ark) + the high land W. of it. The large lake the one I + Ou-e-lu passed over on our way home from Ig-loo-lik last year.
Soon as he (In-nu) + the other boys saw these Indians they threw away their deer meat leaving the dogs with meat on their backs + then ran with all their might for home.
Now the good hearted Innuit In-nu breaks off from the Indian story + tells what the native Ki-a told him before he was killed by a walrus. Ki-a was once hunting took-too with Koo-loo-a (Koo-loo-a is present) when he (Ki-a) was a great many human footprints that were very strange to him The place was near the N.W. extreme of Melville Peninsula which is by the W. extreme of Fury + Hecla Strait not far from a river which runs into the sea from the eastward.
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The tracks were long + very narrow in the middle. In-nu told Ki-a when he told him about it that he thought they must be white men’s (Kob-lu-nas) for he (In-nu) had lived at Too-noo-nee (Ponds Bay) + seen whites —— + their tracks. In-nu is sure that these tracks must have been white men’s from Ki-a’s description of their character. The tracks were in the sand for it was in the fall when snow was off the ground when Ki-a saw them. In-nu says he + his son afterwards tried to go to said extreme point of Melville Peninsula thinking they might find something that belonged to Kob-lu-nas. As they got not a great ways from what they thought to be the long point a hill intervened + a fog came on when they turned back. The time when Ki-a saw the strange tracks the same fall that Ki-a saw the strange man who had on dark clothes + something like a stick
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on his shoulders.
Koo-loo-a says at same time he was hunting with Ki-a he had killed a deer + sat himself down on a rock + eat [sic] some of the meat. He had put his head down + just before getting his mouth to the water he heard something crack which he says was ti-ma-na-t (the same) as the crack of guns he had heard the crack of guns when living at Too-noo-nee (Ponds Bay). He could not tell from which direction the sound came on account of his position in the act of drinking. Looked about but could see no one + did not hear the noise again. The place was near the N.W. extreme of Melville Peninsula as he (Koo-loo) points out on Parry’s Chart. Same day Koo-loo-a heard the crack as
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he thought of a gun while walking around he came to fresh tracks on some grass + earth the tracks longer than his Ki-a [crossed out in original] Koo-loo-a foot – the tracks so fresh that the grass had not all regained their erect position. Some of it (the grass) was then gradually lifting up as it had been before being trod upon. The steps long + foot mark “turning out.”
Next morning after hearing crack + seeing tracks both Koo-loo-a and Ki-a moved their tents + families away from that place – The next morning after moving Koo-loo-a went to work fixing the skin of the deer he had killed.
As Koo-loo-a was late in getting ready Ki-a started off deer hunting alone. By + by Ki-a saw a man coming up the hill on which he (Ki-a) was coming directly toward him. Ki-a thought at first the man to be Koo-loo-a but on looking longer + more observingly Ki-a saw his mistake for it was
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not Koo-loo-a but a strange man having a cap on his head that was distinct from his coat. He saw that he (the stranger) had strange clothes on + carried something strange in a strange way on his shoulder. Ki-a could not from his position behind the rock see much of the stranger’s face – the clothes not black nor white – coat on that came down to or almost to his knees – the make of clothes altogether different from In-nuits. The stranger had something across his shoulder running diagonally – this something was long + wide at one end + narrow at the other end. He was walking rather fast + going directly toward the point on NW ex. of Melville Peninsula as showed by K. on Parry’s Chart. Ki-a followed the stranger up for some time + looked sharp at him. Ki-a kept himself hid among the rocks all the time.
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Next morning Ki-a and Koo-loo-a moved their tents + families to the same place as where Ki-a saw the strange man + there they all saw the strangers tracks which showed a long foot narrow in the middle. Same day Koo-loo-a while hunting saw the monument + cache stones he has before described. From there (the place where the tents were —- the place where strange man had been seen) Koo-loo-a + Ki-a with their families removed down to Ar-lang-na-zhu (Garry Bay) + they saw nothing more of the kind he (Koo-loo-a) has been describing. Now 0h-30m PM + all the Innuits Koo-loo-a to get at the year when the above took place.
In 15 minutes the answer comes by the show of 13 raised fingers = Thirteen years ago last fall.
This brings it out that it was in 1854 that Ki-a saw what I have
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not the least doubt was one of Sir John Franklin’s men In the same fall + almost at the same time Koo-loo-a, a most truthful Innuit as I believe him to be from his appearance, saw the tracks of this man + of others (of Sir J. Franklin’s) + heard the reports of their guns.)
Now several Innuits tell that before this a piece of a mast + pieces of boards some painted red + some of other colors, were found on the beach of Garry Bay (Ar-lang-na-zhu)
At my request “Jo” + Hannah have been telling the Innuits about the story told by Qua-shu’s wife (Kar-wong-ou) No one doubts what this woman has told me for she was never known to tell a lie – but whenever anything is told that her husband has said none will believe it for he is given to lying as the natives say.
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Now 1h-10m PM we have just got through having a lunch. I 1st gave each of our visitors a small handful of bread (sea-bread) which is greatly liked by all the natives here, especially by the four venerable ones who have feasted on board the Fury + Hecla – with Parry + Lyon. After this the men partook with me one oot-koo-seek full of cooked Walrus meat + Walrus intestines + Walrus soup.
Now I commence a talk with Oo-shoo the wife of Too-goo-lat the latter the brother of the good + kind hearted In-ku-men now of Repulse Bay but lately of Ig-loo-lik.
Oo-shoo is the daughter of the celebrated Tak-ee-lik-ee-ta whose portrait Lyon so faithfully drew for Parry’s narrative of his 2nd voyage for the discovery of the N W Passage
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Oo-shoo says that she was at Koong-wa (the Narrows uniting North Pole lake with Christie lake) many years ago where a party of her people was stopping deer hunting in the fall. There at the Narrows deer were killed + some placed on deposit there under stones – a pile of Est-shoo-tin (Dwarf shrub Andromeda tetragona) for fuel was picked by Oo-shoot + the wife of Qua-sher. By + By Qua-sher + Too-goo-lat took their ki-as + proceeded on toward See-jak-big. Too-koo-lat’s step father (an old man) with the 2 women + Oo-shot + Kan-wong-a (wife of Qua-sher) stopped awhile at Koong-wa – then moved along on the land by Christie lake in the direction Qua-sher + Too-koo-lat had proceeded.
half way to Nuk-er-ta (the place where Ar-too-a was drowned) the woman + the old man made a stop tenting there. While the old man remained at the tent the women Oo-shoo
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+ Kar-wong-un, went back to Koong-wa (the Narrows) after some meat + things they could not carry the 1st time. + then after getting what they wanted they started back. By + by wanting to rest they sat down on a stone + soon Oo-shoo saw what she thought to be two Innuits + thought nothing particular of that till on resuming their walking they soon came to the tracks of 2 men which from their strange shape greatly frightened the women – the tracks of 2 men – of one large – tracks of the 2 narrow in the middle – + long. Before the women got to their tent – they heard a noise – a shouting noise but they thought it must have been the old man they had left at the tent. When they got back to the tent Oo-shoot asked the old man if he had been shouting + he said No. They told the old man all about what they had seen + heard. That night they all slept in one tent then the wind blew a little
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in the night + shook the other tent a good deal + their dogs set up a terrible barking – the tent the woman + old man were in did not shake while the other made an awful shaking noise. The old man went to crying out loud + kept it up all night saying to the supposed Indians that he was cousin to them. That fall the Innuits set down at See-jok-big + —- [the story goes on precisely (with slight variations) the same as Kar-wong-un told at Repulse Bay + which I there recorded) Oo-shoot knows nothing about the loss of the deer meat + fire wood except that she heard that winter that they were gone by the hands of some strangers. Oo-shoot heard about Qua-sher + wife leaving to over to Melokuta Oo-shoo is not sure about the time when she + party were at Koong-wa but she remembers it was the purpose of Quo-
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sher + wife to visit Pelly Bay the next spring. Oo-shoo says she was young at the time + does not well remember about what was seen + what took place when at Koong-wa + See-jok-big. she says Kar-wong-a is a very truthful woman + can tell about the matter. A great deal of Et-ker-lin seen + talked about all that summer + fall when she + party were at Koong-wa + see-jok-big. Oo-shoot says that when she came to Repulse Bay last year + 1st saw Kob-lu-na tracks she at once began to think about the tracks she + Kar-wong-un saw near Koong-wa for the tracks appeared the same kind – long + narrow in the middle – + the toe such square across.
Oo-shoot does look to me older than 25 years. Smart intelligent woman having much the looks of her father as represented in his portrait in Parry’s work. This
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portrait with the other Illustrations of Parry Narrative I have with me. That of Tak-kee-lik-ee-ta, the father of Oo-shoot, one that has been the great attraction of all the older Innuits who have seen him when living. Oo-shoot greatly affected when she saw this likeness. The Portrait a remarkable good one for it has drawn forth more than one Innuit tear of those Innuits around me.
Ag-loo-ka (Crozier) is now talking about what the Innuits “Jerry’s mother a Pelly Bay native told at See-jok-big about the white men starving near Neitchille There were three (3) men of the number that had formerly been to Ig-loo-lik with Parry: Their names: —- “Ag-loo-ka (Crozier), Par-kee + —-
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The old lady told him (Ag-loo-ka) now by me that there were a good many men together starving some started off from the main body of starving ones + never came back again. Every once in a while a part of the great many would go away + not return again.
Ag-loo-ka says that all the people here heard long, long time ago that the man Crozier with whom he exchanged name when Parry was here + tow men with him had got as far down as the “Kin-na-pa-too” + had probably got from thence home safe. One of the men that went with Crozier was his pe-e-lood (servant).
Heard about this here in this country a little while after Dr Rae went home from Iw-wil-lik 1st time – thats’ not long after 1847.
When Ki-a told all about the strange
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man he saw (thirteen years ago in 1854) all the Innuits of Ig-loo-lik who had ever seen Kob-lu-nas thought he (the strange man) a Kob-lu-na (white man)
In answer to my question which I now put to the Innuits in council with me as to who they suppose the strange man Ki-a saw + described to them they all say without a dissenting voice that they think he was a white man. —- I am almost certain he was a white man – even more, that he was one of a party of white men that had found their way in a boat from the low land ( —- Simpson Peninsula) near Pelly Bay, across Committee Bay to Fury + Hecla Strait. A few very few days may open out the whole mystery, for to-morrow, God willing, I with my Chosen Co. will start for the most N.W. part of Melville Peninsula +
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there in that locality we will make most diligent search for some of long lost —- of the civilized world.
Through 3h – 35m PM] CF Hall or Ar-tung-un
IV h – 25m PM By the aid of Hannah as Interpreter I now ask Ar-tung-un if he can tell me the time when he saw that dog which he told me about a few days since – the dog that was running after the deer by scenting on their tracks. He answers that it was the same summer that Ki-a saw the strange man over near Adge-go (Fury + Hecla Strait.) says the dog was long + slim in his body + looked very much like the animal in shape which
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the dog is chasing in the illustration in Parry’s work where the ships are entering into the Harbor at Winter Island only the dog had a long tail. See what is said about this dog under Friday Apr. 10/68. H
Wednesday:May:13:1868
On 2nd sledge journey from N Oo-glit Isle [1st enct Snow House] X miles from Ig-loo-lik
Now 0h -5m PM + present in our Igloo Ar-koo-too, the sister of deceased Ki-a, wife of Oo-too —- + Hannah by me as Interpreter
Ar-koo-too a little older than her brother Ki-a – she is the mother of 5 boys all living – has had no girls. Ki-a a young man at the time he saw the stranger + made afraid very easy
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X Truly not more than about two (2) miles
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she (Ar-koo-too) has seen that In-nook-shoo (stone monument) that Koo-loo-a conducted me too [sic] of Parry’s Bay. Oo-too has not seen the same. Innuits did not make that monument – Innuits have told her (Ar-koo-too) that it was made by some Kod-lu-nas (whites) for a good many once passed over that great land (Melville Peninsula)
Ki-a saw a man + started to go to him thinking it was Koo-loo-a his deer hunting companion then by + by he saw his mistake for he proved to be a strange man – had a cap + clothes on altogether different from anything he had ever seen – + he Ki-a kept following the stranger keeping himself hid as he went from rock to rock looking sharp to see who he (the stranger) was – saw that he had on a coat of a kind of blue color – light blue – [Now, smart,
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intelligent Net-too comes into the Ig-loo + I request that he shall stop awhile] —- Had on a long coat that came down to his knees + shook very much in the wind – He carried something on his back that every now + then glistened in the sun. It was long + small at one end + large or narrow at the other end. When Ki-a told about the stranger he saw all the Innuits who had ever seen a Kod-lu-na before said the stranger must have been one – that is a white man. Ki-a thought the stranger a Et-ker-lin (Indian) + did not dare to show himself.
The place where Ki-a saw the stranger is not a great ways below Adge-go (Fury + Hecla St) near the great sea and W. side of the big land + the stranger going toward the long point near where a river is
0 – 50 PM + Oo-too + Pa-pa have come in
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When Ki-a told his mother about what he had seen she declared that the stranger must have been a Kod-lu-na (white man) she Ki-a’s mother had never seen one but had been told all about how they dressed + walked. His mother lived a good many years at Too-noo-nee-roo-chuk (Admiralty Inlet).
She (Ar-koo-too) never saw the cache stones near the monument nor the tent place close by.
Both Oo-too + his wife Ar-koo-too together say that the monument that was not made by Innuits is not far from the bottom of a bay + a river each side enters the bay. They were there about 3 years before Ki-a saw the stranger + then there was no Innookshook (monument) there. No Innuit ever saw that curious tenting place which Hannah found not far from the monument + has described to them. It was pretty
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near the place where the monument is that Ki-a saw the stranger.
Kia saw as he watched the stranger walking that he toed out very much. He soon after examined his tracks + found it so – the tracks showed long foot + very narrow in the middle. Oo-too thought the stranger Kod-lu-na (white man) altogether when Ki-a told about him for he Oo-too had seen white men at Too-noo-nee (Pond’s Bay) many times before.
The tracks showed a deep place at the heel – deeper than anywhere else – the steps too not very long for the stranger seemed to be looking around to find something – some game perhaps – as he walked along. The time of year when Ki-a saw the stranger was in the summer of the year – when took-too had short hair – no snow on the ground.
How many years ago did this happen – or
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how may summers since Ki-a saw this stranger? She (Ar-koo-too) makes it out 7 years ago. As she is very much engaged just now with her husband’s sketching the coast from N. side —- Fury + Hecla Strait to the northward, very difficult to get her mind back onto the subject of our talk. The above answer given very hastily. Each year being represented by some incident she could bring to mind required more time. When I can get her full attention + that of her husband I will try + see if the above answer is correct.
She says in the Inlet we Kod-lu-nas call Whyte Inlet whales have —- + could never get out – their bones found there in considerable quantities.
Oo-too has got through his sketch chart. I had just risen up from my seat on the bed platform to go out when
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I lifted my foot to show Ar-koo-too the size of my foot having all my feet gear on bu —- when I asked her if the foot print which Ki-a saw was as large as mine.
From this comes the news which is interesting, unexpected + important that she (Ar-koo-too) once saw + was the one who 1st saw foot prints in the fresh fallen snow, the 1st snow of the fall (of the year) of a strange person this side of Ar-lang-na-zhu (Garry Bay). The tracks long foot – not Innuits tracks – little longer foot than mine – no deep heel print. This was several years before Ki-a saw the stranger – it was before she had any children her oldest ( —- an adopted boy) 17 to 20 yrs old I should think. This boy who is now in Ig-loo is same age now made out as “Harry” (deceased Shoo-she-ark-nuk’s oldest boy) who is 16 or 17. Snow in such condition that it was hard to make out more than that they
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were not an Innuits + she measured the length of foot mark with her fingers in the usual way Innuit women measure. After that some other Innuits saw tracks of strangers that is they were not Innuits tracks but of some of some [repetition in original] other race.
The spring of the next year that is the spring succeeding the summer Ki-a saw the stranger, he was killed by a walrus while out walrusing in his Ki-a near Ig-loo-lik. Kok-e-zhoo (arrow) now at his representative grave on Ig-loo-lik. an ugly walrus he had fastened to wounded struck his tusks through his Ki-a + thus he was drowned.
Ar-koo-too now says: – “It was after Dr Rae saw at I-wil-lik the 2d time – that is after 1854 the time he + party left there) that
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Ki-a saw this stranger” (where Koo-loo-a showed me NW coast Melville Peninsula)
IX h – 10m PM Ar-koo-too + her husband still in our Ig-loo visiting – they do every thing they can for us having one boy after another go out to their Ig-loo for something or other for us. Seem delighted to have us here. Through Hannah Ar-koo-too tells me she is the mother of 29 children only 5 left – all 29 boys. Had them one nearly [“nearly” crossed through in original]
every year but nearly all died soon as born.
The woman about the same age as Ou-e-la (Albert) of Repulse Bay. Never did I see a smarter paire [sic] than Oo-too + his wife – the boys all like them. Oo-too once went from Amitoke to Talloon E part of Lyons Inlet in two days with dogs + sledge + got a Ki-a returning in three days.
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I have before heard of the great distance made by this Innuit in a short time – now I see him + see how really full of life he is I do not doubt the statement. He has an arm backed up with a determined soul + wo [sic: ie “woe”] be to that dog that should fail to perform all that Oo-too – might require of him.
Friday:May:15:1868
XI – 30 AM The native for whose information about having seen (as has been told to me) a stone hut + about having found some fabric (a piece of canvass [sic] or something of the kind) in or about the hut near Ar-lang-na-zhu (Garry Bay), is now present in our Ig-loo ready for a talk with me. Jo + Hannah my Interpreters. Where was you (Kud-loon) born? At Too-noo-nee (Pond’s Bay)
Did you ever go to Ar-lang-na-zhu?
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Have been there many times – Went there to kill took-too (deer) The last time he went there he found two pieces of Wood – one a part of a mast + the other a piece of plank – The piece of mast about 5 feet long + 12 to 15 inches diameter as shown by the hands + arms. Found them on the shore – the round piece sawed off at each end A mistake here one end sawed square off the other end cut with some other tool + square shape at that end. After he found these pieces of wood went to Too-noo-nee (Pond’s Bay) + stopped 8 years. Never saw anything at or about Ar-lang-na-zhu like a stone house made by any strangers – that is by anybody but Innuits – never found any piece of fabric like a piece of canvass [sic] or anything of the kind – never saw any one in that great land (Melville Peninsula) but Innuits. Saw Ki-a a great many times before he was killed by a wal-
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rus – used to be with him a good deal – used to go deer hunting with him.
How old was Ki-a when he was killed? Ki-a a little older than himself (Kud-loon) He (Kud-loon) not so old as Pa-pa + Ou-e-la who were born about the time Parry was here. Every body liked Ki-a. He (Kud-loon) liked him very much – used to live with him all the time. Where was you (Kud-loon) when Ki-a saw the strange man that you + all the other Innuits talk about? Was over there at Ar-lang-na-zhu + the land there about, with Ki-a deer hunting.
How many Innuits were over there hunting at that time? Answer six + 2 afterwards. Who were they?
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Answer: – Ki-a (1), Kud-loon, O-kay (a), Suk-bar-bing (2), Muk-ta (b), Koo-loo-a (c), Kop-poo (3), Soo-blu-ar-u (d) = 8 altogether
(1) (2) (3) These Innuits dead
(a) (b) At Too-noo-nee-roo-shuk
(c) ” Oo-glit
(d) = (At the other village near Ig-loo-lik
Now Kud-loon at my request goes on to tell me about Ki-a – how he told the above Innuits about his Ki-a’s seeing a strange man – + other strange sights.
When they all met – which they did at some place a little way inland that is eastward of the great Western sea, Ki-a told them what a strange thing had happened. He (Ki-a) said that he had seen a man walking along toward him + he thought he must be Koo-loo-a. Very quick Ki-a
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discovered his mistake for he saw the man had strange clothes on + carried something long on his shoulder. The stranger had on a Koo-loo-ta (coat) that had a covering for the head but this was thrown back + lying behind the head, + on his head was a cap. Ki-a followed the man keeping hid behind the rocks for he wanted to see who he might be. The hair must have been very short so short that the cap completely covered it up so that he couldn’t see it. The face the side next to him (Ki-a) white not dark like the Innuits. The coat not exactly white nor black – was long coming down almost to the knees. No tail about it – same length all around [Jo + Hannah + Kud-loon think the coat must have been a white one but had got dirty in wearing it same as the flesh side of deer skin —- after long use.]
Ki-a furthermore said that the strange man had something long on his shoulders – its position diagonal. It looked as if
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a cover of something was on the outside – one end wider than the other.
I now ask Kud-loon which end was down of the long thing Ki-a saw on the stranger’s back – the large end or small end? His answer at once comes: “Large end down.” I now show Kud-loon the Illustration of Parry’s Narrative of his voyage of 1821-2 + 3 of Western outlet of the Fury + Hecla Strait where 2 men are represented standing with their backs toward the “looker on” one having the butt of his gun on the ground + he resting on it while the other stands erect with his gun slung diagonally across his back, the butt end down. Kud-loon instantly points his fingers to the latter figure + says Ti-nee-na-tu – that is “all the same” was the long thing on the shoulder of the stranger Ki-a saw. Kud-loon says that after Ki-a saw the stranger Koo-loo-a + Ki-a together tried to find the stranger but they were unsuccessful.
Kud-loon says that one day or 2 days
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after – perhaps it may have been 3 days – he does not exactly remember which – after Ki-a had seen the strange man, he saw the tracks the tracks [repetition in original] in sand + were the tracks of strangers – were not Innuit tracks – the tracks along side of a lake + showed the strangers to be going toward the N.W. extreme of the land south side of Adg-go [sic] Fury + Hecla Strait.
The dog tracks showed that the dog belonged to the 3 strangers. From the tracks Ki-a thought those who made them carried something heavy. These three (3) men tracks of same character as those of the strange man he had a little while before seen. The sand so dry that it —- out that it did not well show, but Ki-a thought from the size – the length of the tracks that they could not be Innuits. When the 8 men Innuit hunters all got together they consulted together + it was found no one of their number had been anywhere near where the tracks of
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3 men + of dog were seen by Ki-a. At the time they (the 8) all met together Koo-loo-a told all about what he had seen + heard.
Koo-loo-a told of the strange tracks he had seen + of the gun cracking noise he had heard. The Innuits felt at first some what alarmed thinking perhaps they might be Indians or Pelly Bay natives. Ki-a thought when he saw the stranger + found he was not Koo-loo-a that he was an Indian. After all of them had talked the matter all over near Ar-lang-na-zhu most of them thought the man Ki-a had seen must have been a Kod-lu-na (white man) + yet they couldn’t tell how it was possible for him to get there.
I now ask Kud-loon if he ever heard of the story of Qua-shu + his wife seeing white men on the great lands west of Ig-loo-lik? He answers negatively but all at once a thought comes into his mind + he stops revolving some ideas to refreshen
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his memory. I may here say that after asking my question above + he had thought awhile “Jo” told him something of Qua-zhus deer hunt at Nel-li-ki-uk-big – + then Kud-loon stopped – Kud-loon says he never heard of Qua-zhu + wife seeing any white men but he (Kud-loon) + some other Innuits went with them then that year that Q + wife stopped at Nel-li-ki-ok-big deer hunting. Another Innuit + his wife stopped with Qua-zhu + wife but the wife of the other Innuit was sick + had to return.
How many years ago was it that you with Quazhu his wife + others went off on this deer hunt? By certain incidents that have happened (one of these incidents the Innuit he (Kud-loon) killed at Too-noo-nee-roo-shuk) one year after another the answer is arrived at [Nine (9) summers ago – Nine summers the coming summer. The following winter there was great trouble at Ig-loo-lik among the many Innuit there – + some one of Qua-zhu’s
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relation got killed.
I now ask Kud-loon if he ever heard about there being large pieces of mica (Isinglass) at Nel-li-ki-ok-big? He answers on some moments of reflection that he did hear at the time that year Qua-zhu + wife stopped then about somebody’s finding a large piece of stone thereabouts. Does not remember well about it but remembers this much. Does not remember who it was that found it.
May 17th:1868
3d Enct 2d sledge journey from N. Oo-glit
Vih – 30m PM + I have just sent for the woman of whom I had heard about the place where a piece of rope or something of the kind + a large tenting place was found a few years ago, near the entrance to the Inlet miscalled Gifford river, on the land east side of said entrance. This woman now present in our Igloo + her husbands name
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Too-tee-che-uk + her name Kow-may-yoe.
Tuk-oo-li-too my Interpreter.