332 The Monument on Melville Peninsula. fjanuary, ises. 



where in the neighborhood of Ig-loo-lik, two stone buildings, "not 

 such as Innuits ever made, but quite large, long, wide, and high." To 

 this story, which appeared quite improbable, Hall at first paid but lit- 

 tle attention ; but a few days after this, Ebierbing showed Paim, on 

 Parry's chart, the country around Tg-loo-lik ; and as soon as the na- 

 tive understood the chart, he pointed out the place where these build- 

 ings had been found, and gave the name of the Innuit who had seen 

 them when on his deer-hunt. It was on the south side of the strait, 

 about half way between Cape Englefield and Amherst Island, and the 

 buildings, he said, were on a low shelving shore near some bold high- 

 land. Papa said of the Innuit, Kia^ who had seen them, that he w^as 

 a man who would never lie. He gave as a reason for Kia^s close 

 observation of every object in that country, his consciousness that his 

 own life had long been in perpetual danger from the relatives of one 

 who had been slain by one of his kinsmen ; for, according to Innuit 

 belief, the soul of the slain can never rest until some near relative of 

 the slayer shall pay the debt with his blood. Of Papa himself, Hall 

 says that he was a good-natured, intelligent, and truthful native, who 

 had lived five years near Ponds Bay and many more at Ig-loo-lik. 



Frequent conversations were, therefore, held with Papa, and with 

 his friend Ik-ku-mer, to learn everything on this new and interesting 

 subject ; and in tlie early part of February following, Hall sent Ebier- 

 bing and Frank Lailor to a native village, twenty miles distant on the 

 ice, to ask that some of the natives of Ig-loo-lik who were there would 

 visit liini. 1 hey returned with Quasha, his wife, and JEek-choo-ar-cJioo, 

 whom Hall notes also as " Jerry " — a name probably received from 

 the whalemen. From these natives he learned with further interest 

 that within the past three years they had seen near Ig-loo-lik two 



