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of his arm, but his countryman who picked it up broke it 

 into lengths to make knives. 



After much anxious enquiry we learned that two ships had 

 been seen by the natives of King William's Island ; one of 

 them was seen to sink in deep water, and nothing was ob- 

 tained from her, a circumstance at which they expressed 

 much regret ; but the other was forced on shore by the ice, 

 where they suppose she still remains, but is much broken. 

 From this ship they have obtained most of their wood, &c. ; 

 Oot-loo-lik is the name of the place where she grounded. 



Formerly many natives lived there, now very few remain. 

 All the natives have obtained plenty of the wood. 



The most of this information was given us by the young 

 man who sold the knife. Old Oo-na-lee, who drew the 

 rough chart for me in March, to show where the ship sank, 

 now answered our questions respecting the one forced on 

 shore; not a syllable about her did he mention on the 

 former occasion, although we asked whether they knew of 

 only one ship. I think he would willingly have kept us in 

 ignorance of a wreck being upon their coasts, and that the 

 young man unwittingly made it known to us. 



The latter also told us that the body of a man was found 

 on board the ship ; that he must have been a very large man, 

 and had long teeth : that is all he recollectad having been 

 told, for he was quite a child at the time. 



They both told us it was in the fall of the year — that is, 

 August or September — when the ships were destroyed ; that 

 all the white people went away to the " large river," taking 

 a boat or boats with them, and that in the following winter 

 their bones were found there. 



These two Esquimaux families had been up as far north 

 as the Tasmania Group 1 in latitude 71^° N., and were 



1 These islands were so named by me, at the request of Lady Frank- 

 lin, in grateful acknowledgment of many proofs of affectionate sympathy 



