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whelming- her tliat she sank at once, and had never been seen again. 

 Several men at work in her could not get out in time, and were carried 

 down with her and drowned. '' On this account Ag-loo-kd!s company- 

 had died of starvation, for they had not time to get the provisions out 

 of her." Ag-loo-ka and one other white man — the latter called ^^Nar- 

 tar^''^ a pee-ee-tu (steward) — started and went toward Oot-koo-ish-ee-lee 

 (Great Fish or Back's River), saying they were going there on their 

 way home. That was the last they saw of them, but heard of them 

 some time after from a Kin-na-pa-too, who said he and his people 

 heard shots or reports of guns of strangers somewhere near Chester- 

 field Inlet. On getting the Innuits to try to pronounce the word 

 "doctor," they invariably said ^'- nar-tarT This made Hall think that 

 the white man with Ag-loo-ka was some one called "doctor" — perhaps 

 Surgeon Macdonald, of Franklin's ship, the Erebus. 



The other ship spoken of as seen near Ook-goo-lik was in com- 

 plete order, having three masts and four boats hanging at the davits — 

 whale-ship like. For a long time the Innuits feared to go on board ; 

 but on the report by one of them that he had seen one man on the 

 vessel alive, many of the natives visited it, but saw nothing of the 

 man. They then rummaged everywhere, taking for themselves what 

 they wanted, and throwing overboard guns, powder, ball, and shot. 



At an interview with the mother of Too-shoo-art-thar-iu whose son 

 saw Ag-loo-ka (Crozier) on the island of Ook-goo-lik, Hall was told 

 that during the previous summer or winter, the Innuits of Ook-goo-lik 

 had found two boats with dead koh-lu-nas in them — the boats on 

 sledges ; and that In-nook-poozJi-e-jook had one of them. 



The several interviews from which the accounts here given have 

 been collated were deeply interesting to Hall. They were held in the 

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