April, 1»66.J 



Discoura(jui<j Neivs. 



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killed to get Ill's wife ; that some of tlic; i'clK- Vr.ix natives wli<> wore 

 without wives, and who were being aided by the friends in their 

 attempts to steal wives from tlieir hiis])ands, would certainly carry off 

 Mam-mark; aud that he himself was leaving his own countr}' for Re- 

 pulse Bay through fear especially f- — 'i 

 of the See-nee-mee-utes. He added 

 that he had given this information 

 chiefly because of his friendship 

 in past times for the parents of 

 Ou-e-Ia, Nii-ker-.iJioo, and others, ^B 

 and his promise to keep a good look B 

 out for any of their children, if 

 he should ever find them anywhere 

 near the See-nee-me-utes. Three 

 men of Kok-lee-arng-nun's party, one 

 by one confirmed all that tlieir 

 chief had said of the bad state of 

 affairs among the natives northward siLVEitFoKic and spoons (ikankun kklicsI. 

 and westward, and added that since a recent fight about a deposit, 

 in which the See-nee-mee-utes had lost two men by the Neit-tee-liks, 

 they were burning to wreak vengeance on somebod3\ 



Two of these Pell}^ Bay men told of their own visit, two years 

 before, to Ki-ki-tung (King William's Land), on which they had 

 remained a short time. 1 hey })ointed out on Rae's chart exactly the 

 course they took in going and returning direct from the upper part of 

 Pelly Bay overland to Spence Bay, and thence across the ice to Ki-ki- 

 tung, passing the south point of Matty Island, and thence northwest ; — 

 for sealing. When Hall questioned these two men as to any ships 



