The Frobisher Colorty. 9 



some lone survivor or survivors that peradventure might be found living 

 with the Eskimos. He then gave an account of Messrs. Williams and 

 Haven's generously free conveyance to Northumberland Inlet of liim- 

 self and his Eskimo companion, Kud-lar-go, with his boat, provisions, 

 and stores; of his boat being wrecked the September following; and 

 of his long residence with the natives, during which he had ingratiated 

 himself witli them, adopting their style of dress, living in their snow 

 huts, and feeding on their raw whale-skin, walrus and seal meat. 



With some exultation, he said that in September, 1861, he had 

 landed on an island which the Innuits and their ancestors from time 

 immemorial had called Kodlunarn, or White Man's Island, from tlio 

 tradition that strangers had lived there and tried to escape fl-om it; — on 

 which island he had found remains of stone houses, coal, iron, and 

 glass, all covered with the moss of ages; and that he had visited every 

 accessible place named by the Eskimos as connected with the fate of 

 the strangers living there, as they said, ''many, many years ago." He 

 added his convictions that he had thus been the first to revisit the pre- 

 cise localities of Frobisher's three expeditions of 1576, '77, and '78, 

 and quoted from Haklu5^t and other works in which the materials 

 taken out by Frobisher for the erection of stone houses and everything 

 necessary for the colony of one hundred men are detailed; and he 

 exhibited the specimens which he had brought from the ruins, asking 

 the Geographical Society to inspect them rigidly in evidence for or 

 against his statements. 



He then showed that during his two years' northern residence, lie 

 had explored over one thousand miles of coast, making as careful a 

 surve}^ as his means and instruments permitted, and proving that the 

 water which had for three centuries been called Frobisher's Strait was 



