400 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [Vou. VIII. 
Paulet Papanakies, on his return from the expedition repeatedly stated 
that he saw a ship far out in the ice at the mouth of the Great Fish 
River. Those whom I have spoken to say they have no reason to 
doubt the man’s veracity. On some one suggesting that he might have 
been mistaken Paulet replied, “It was a very clear day, and I have 
seen the ship at York too often to be deceived.” 
Old Tom, who was on this expedition, gives the following 
account :— Paulet, Edward Kipling and I were sent off from the camp 
on the mainland in an inflated waterproof canoe to examine a chain of 
islands running far out to sea. There was open water between these 
islands and we proceeded from island to island, searching for remains 
as we went along. We found something on one of these islands, but I 
do not remember what it was. When we came to the last island 
but one, it was thought advisable that-I, being the heaviest man in 
the party, should get out of the canoe, which was hardly up to our 
weight, and allow the other two to go on to the last island, which 
lay a long distance off. I was accordingly left behind. When my 
companions returned from this island, which was high and rocky, they 
reported that they had seen nothing. The expedition turned back 
shortly afterwards. 
After we were disbanded Paulet told me and others at Norway 
House that he had seen a ship from the lofty island in question, and 
that he had begged Kipling to say nothing about it, because, if it were 
known that the ship was there, an attempt would be made to reach it, 
their frail craft would be crushed to pieces in the moving ice, and they 
would surely perish. 
Tom goes on to say :—I believe Paulet saw the ship. Dr. Rae had 
previously been told that the ship was there, and had stated that he 
believed such to be the case. In fact it was on account of Dr. Rae’s 
expressed belief in the Eskimo tale that the expedition under Messrs. 
Anderson and Stewart was organized. 
PAULET PAPANAKIES’ STORY, as reported by Mr. J. B. Johnston: 
After saying the party left Norway House he thinks it was in 
the month of February, and other unimportant details, he goes on to 
say that a “Husky ” who was fishing at the mouth of a river, the name 
of which he does not know, told him (Paulet) and Thomas Mustagan 
that aship had been “ruined” and plenty people dead. They did not un- 
derstand his language, but he made signs which they could readily follow, 
