130 ESQUIMA UX INFORM A TION. Chap. IX. 



Thinking it not quite impossible that this Igloolik might 

 be the place where Parry wintered in 1822-3, 1 told Petersen 

 to ask whether ships had ever been there ? She answered, 

 " Yes, a ship stopped there all one winter ; but it is a long 

 time ago." All she could distinctly recollect having been 

 told about it was that one of the crew died, and was buried 

 there, and his name was Al-lah or El-leh. On referring to 

 Parry's ' Narrative,' I found that the icemate, Mr. Elder, 

 died at Igloolik. This is a very remarkable confirmation 

 of the locality, — for there are several places called Igloolik. 

 She also told us it was an island, and near a strait between 

 two seas. The Esquimaux take considerable pains to learn 

 and remember names • this woman knows the names of 

 several of the whaling captains, and the old chief at De Ros 

 Islet remembered Captain Inglefield's name, and tried hard 

 to pronounce mine. 



She now told us of another wreck upon the coast, but 

 many days' journey to the south of Pond's Bay ; it came 

 there before her first child was born. Her age is not less 

 than forty-five. 



August Ofth. — Our Esquimaux friends have departed from 

 us with every demonstration of friendship, to return to their 

 village. We have had free communication with them for 

 four days — not only through Mr. Petersen, but also through 

 our two Greenlanders ; the result is that they have no 

 knowledge whatever of either the missing or the abandoned 

 searching ships. Neither wrecked people nor wrecked ships 

 have reached their shores. They seemed to be much in 

 want of wood ; most of what they have consists of staves of 

 casks, probably from the Navy Board Inlet depot. 



In their bartering with us, saws were most eagerly sought 

 for in exchange for narwhals' horns j they are used by them 

 in cutting up the long strips of the bones of whales with 

 which they shoe the runners of their sledges, also the ivory 



