occcuibcr, 1864.] Oo-00-took OH Viimjs SMp, 1824. 11 U 



each stroke, as the knife was Hfted, the wounds instantly healed wp, the 

 cm-nat-ko being made whole by the Good Spirit who protected him. 



When Oo-oo-took was permitted to go on deck, he attempted to go 

 ashore. He was passing out of the gangway when four men seized 

 him ; l)ut during the struggle to free himself from further punishment, 

 lie kicked one koh-lu-na down the snow-steps, which fall nearly killed 

 him, and the kob-lu-na suffered with a lame back for a long time. 

 Finally, the koh-lu-na conquered him and })ut him down between 

 decks, in a cold, dark place, where he kept him two days and two 

 nights, but while so confined, one good kob-lu-na., in a very sly wa}^ 

 gave him something to eat ; otherwise he had nothing to eat or 

 drink. 



After Oo-oo-took had been one day and one night in the dark hole, 

 he thought he would use his power as an an-nat-ko, and destroy the 

 vessel by splitting it through the middle from stem to stern. So he 

 commenced calling to his aid the Good Spirit, when a great cracking- 

 noise was made, now and then, under the ship, and at the end of the 

 two days and two nights' confinement, the koh-lu-naSj fearing from 

 such great and terrific noises that the ship would be destroyed, let 

 Oo-oo-took go. 



This tradition, which Hall says was believed l)y all the other In- 

 nuits around him, is in rather curious contrast with the account given 

 by Parry himself, which is as follows : [Official Narrative, p. 412.] 



The delinquent was, therefore, put down into the Fury's store-room passage 

 and closely confined there for several hours ; when, having collected several of 

 the natives on board the Fury, I ordered him to be strii)ped and seized u]) in 

 their i)resence, and to receive a dozen lashes on the back witli a cat-o'-niue-tails. 

 The instant this was over, his countrymen called out, " Tt-wm «, ii-mun-na'''' — 

 S. Ex. 27^—8 



