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8 a. ra. — Passing aloug from seventh encampment toward Cape Crozier, the 

 monument is distinctly visible with the glass. I and Frank commenced at once 

 with our snow-shovels to cut out snow-blocks from the heavy bank just west of 

 the monument in search of the cache-stones. Koo-loo-a, from his remembrance of 

 the situation of the monument and cache-stones, has shown us where to dig. 



10.5 a. m. — Hannah has found the tenting-place of white men — an oblong 

 tent and four fresh upturned stones, one at each corner, to make fast the lines of 

 the tent ; the stones show an age since turned up out of their bed the same as 

 monument stones. 



10.30. — Joe, in searching around, has found another tenting-ijlace. Frank 

 and myself were busy raising blocks when Joe called, and then we all ran where 

 he was, and have just made our investigations. Theae stones are in a circular 

 form, and evidently the tenting-place of Innuits within ten to fifteen years. 

 Hannah said if a fire-place could be found within the tent-circle then they were 

 Innuit tenting places, and at last a fire-place was found within one of the circles — 

 black on the back of the fire-place ; a stone that had formed one side was loos- 

 ened and turned up by Hannah and found black with smoke. Koo-loo-a found a 

 large stone in j)roiier position for holding the line keeping up the entrance to 

 the tent; as Ig-loo-lik people make their tents. Joe, Hannah, and Koo-loo-a are 

 sure the oblong-shaped tenting-place and the stones at the corners and outside 

 row of small stones tell the truth, that Innuits never did thatw^ork. The contrast 

 particularly striking between the tenting-place of the whites and that of the 

 natives. A small stump of a tree found in the circle of an Innuit tenting-place, 

 and not decayed, but white with age, showed hard life among the ice of the sea 

 of Ak-koo-lee. 



Evening notes. — All day we have been hard at work cutting out snow- 

 blocks in search of the cache-stones, but in vain. One would Ije greatly de- 

 lighted to see the excavations and upturned blocks all around made in" searching 

 for lost cache stones. * * * 



20^/t. — Joe and Hannah, being well acquainted with white men's ways, are 

 as certain as is Koo-loo-a that white men had an encampment here. 



Having with them provisions for two days only. Hall's party 

 were forced to return to their sixth igloo First, however, he took 

 down the monument stone by stone, yet without finding any record 

 or sign to tell with more certainty who had built it. Koo-loo-a "was 



