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discovered by Innuits on King William's Land, arms, legs, &c., were 

 found cut off to be eaten, and the cut of the bone had always showed 

 this to have been done by a saw. Kdb-hig said that all of the white 

 men except two who were a long time ago at Ki-ki-tuk had perished. 

 One of the two was Ag-loo-ka (Crozier), and both of these had certainly 

 been seen by some of his (Koh-hig^s) friends. This last information 

 made Hall greatly regret the absence of two of these, Too-shoo-art- 

 thar-iu and In-nooJc-poo-zhee-jook The former of these, who was said 

 to have taken some care of Crozier and his men when nearly starving, 

 was now in King William's Land. The latter, who had been all over 

 Ki-ki-tuk, and knew a great deal about the lost expedition, was, when 

 last heard from, at the estuary of the Great Fish River, and was 

 very ill. 



The natives of this bay and of Neitchille had lost nearly all their 

 dogs the previous winter by the same Arctic disease which had swept 

 off those of Repulse Bay and Ig-loo-lik. The people were in an 

 almost starving condition, evident signs of suffering appearing within 

 and without the igloos. Nothing like food was found but a few seal- 

 bones with a trifle of rotten meat on them. There was no fire in the 

 huts, and Hall's own company barely made out to gather a little of 

 the fire-shrub from under the snow to aid in making their drinking- 

 water. 



Old Koh-hig told Hall, on taking leave of him, that it would take 

 from six to eight days to cross the land to the western sea; that King 

 William's Land could be seen from the land on the east side of the 

 strait ; and that the island was low, and, there were many Innuits on 

 its eastern side. He said it was well that there was a white man with 



