276 See-pung-er'' s Story. [junc, iscc. 



kept full ill sight the long knife which he had shown at their first 

 meeting. An old quarrel between See-pung-er and Oti-e-Ia, which had 

 once nearly cost Oii-c-la his life, and another between old See-gar and 

 Kol;-lee-arng-nim, were still unsettled. It could not then be known 

 at what moment an outbreak might occur, although Ou-e-la was at the 

 time absent, lie had just lost one of his wives, and knew that No. 2 

 was near her death. It was all-important for Hall to keep the peace. 

 He had already learned something of value connected with the Frank- 

 lin records from See-pung-er and his wife, and he hoped to learn much 

 more from others of KoJt-lee-arng-nim^s party. 



See-pung-er^ three years before, had visited King William's Land. 

 He told Hall that he had seen, near Shar-too, not far from Pelly Bay, 

 a very high and singular E-nool'-slwo-yer (monument), built by kob- 

 h(-)ias, of stones, and having on its top a piece of wood something 

 like a hand pointing in a certain direction. He had also seen a monu- 

 ment about the height of a tall man, at another point somewhere 

 between Poil Parry and Cape Sabine. When asked whether he had 

 thrown this pile down, he answered, "Only enough of it to find some- 

 thing within." And when further closely questioned, he said that 

 what he found was the small tin-cup which he had just given to Too- 

 koo-li-too ; that a tight top had fitted it ; and that it was thickly and 

 tightly wrapped up and tied, and had been found full of just such 

 looking stuiT as the paper on which Hall had been writing; but, he 

 added, " tliis stuff inside was good for nothing to Innuits, and so 

 was given to tlie children, or thrown away." He said further that he 

 and his uncle had spent one night near this monument, wrapping 

 tlieiiisflvcs u]) ill blankets taken from a pile of white men's clothing 

 fniDid tli< re, and that a k<jb-lu-na's skeleton lay by the pile. Hall 



