278 FOUR YEARS IN THE WHITE NORTH [Jan. 



water. This shows that at one time this was all sea 



bottom. 



"This must have been before the time when there 

 was only one man and one woman. It is strange where 

 they came from, but this is what our fathers and grand- 

 fathers have told us. We can't put things down as you 

 do on paper. What we learn is told to us by our elders, 

 and then we tell others." 



"Do vou remember, In-a-loo, the white men who 

 lived in a little house over at Kab-loo-na-ding-me when 

 you were a little girl.?" I inquired, referring to the Polaris 

 Expedition of 1872. 



"Yes," she said, "I remember it w^ell. The ship was 

 on the shore, but the men lived in a small wooden house, 

 to which we often went and stayed for days at a time. 

 One of the men was large and fat, and all had beards 

 which they cut with scissors. When the men went 

 away in two boats in the spring, many things were left 

 on the shore and in the house. We found many books 

 packed in boxes, and in them I first saw pictures; they 

 frightened me so that I ran away. I remember a pict- 

 ure of a dog and of a man. One box was large, w^ith a 

 cover all of glass; this was full of books. The Eskimos 

 broke this glass into pieces and used it as windows for 

 their snow houses and igloos. The ship at this time 

 was nearly full of ice. After the men went away she 

 drifted off into deep water and sank just inside of 

 Littleton Island. 



"When a new ship (the relief -ship) came that summer, 

 we were very much afraid. The white men said, 

 'WTiere is the ship.?' We replied, 'She is there on the 

 bottom.' They said, 'You are lying!' The ship an- 

 chored off the north end of Littleton Island. Twice it 



