340 The Clothing and Walk of the Men Seen. lAprii, jssy. 



oil the south side of a river emptying- into a bay near tlie Cape Ellice 

 of Dr. Rae, and a little west of this a cache of stones, -which had been 

 opened and its stones tlirown aside. It showed freshness, and was 

 without a sign of meat having been deposited there. Koo-loo-a did not 

 think an Innuit had built it, or tliat any native before his visit had 

 ever gone up so far from Garry Bay. He had been with Kia when 

 the latter saw the strange man. The man had a cap on his head, 

 separate from his overcoat, which had a hood. Kla had kept the 

 stranger in sight for some time, often hiding- himself behind the rocks : 

 he had also then heard the discharge of a gun. 



From the time that Kia first gave this account to Koo-loo-a, it 

 had been believed b}' all the Innuits in the region of the Oo-glit 

 Ishinds, and they all now expressed to Hall their confidence in it. 

 Besides such reports, others also of as strange a character were 

 offered — of strangers having been seen in places nearer to Ig-loo-lik, 

 and of sounds having been repeatedly heard like those from the dis- 

 charge of a gun, and at places too far from the ice to have been the 

 result of the ice cracking. The strangers had at first been taken for 

 JEt-her-Un (Indians), the apprehension alwa}s entertained by Innuits 

 in regard to whom had, at the times when the white men were seen, so 

 frightened them, that, at every appearance, their families had been 

 removed immediately from the place. This was the invariable testi- 

 moii}', as was also the description of the clothing worn and of the foot- 

 prints examined after the strangers passed by. They were long and 

 very narro\v in the middle, with deep places at the heel. The tread 

 of the footste|)s Avas outward 



Ibill could not liclj) connecting in mind tlie storv of the ship's 

 mast and beam on the shores of Pelly Bay, the monument spoken of 



