402 A Monument Erected to the Dead. [May, isoo. 



The spot was pointed out, but the snow covered all from view. A 

 monument was erected, and its bearings from Kee-u-na carefully 

 noted. 



Going back to the thirtieth encampment, and renewing his inqui- 

 ries of Tuk-pee-too and his wife, E-vee-sJmk, he was led by these two to 

 a place on the southeastern end of the island, some twenty fathoms 

 from the shore, where the wife had seen some of the skeleton bones of 

 the five men who had died there. Of the identity of the place and of 

 her having seen skeletons upon it she was very certain. Hall, there- 

 fore, erected a third monument and fired a salute in memory of the 

 dead there. 



The remains which have now been spoken of as found by Hall, 

 or ns honored by his "humble tributes" at the places of their burial, 

 were all which his opportunity possibly afforded him time to search 

 for and honor. He felt confident, during his stay with these natives, 

 that, from a number of conversations and close inquiries (using in 

 these McClintock's, the Admiralty's, and Dr. Rae's charts for the 

 identifications of the places named), he could now account for proba- 

 bly 79 of the 105 men of Crozier's party from the abandoned sliips. 

 Their remains had whitened at or near King William's Land, and had, 

 in some cases at least, been grossly mutilated by dogs. The sub- 

 stance of some conversations with the natives of this region which led 

 liliii to make this estimate of the number of the perished who can bo 

 accounted for is as follows : 



The journal of May 5 says : "This evening quite late (for it w;is 

 (jiiit(; dark in our if/loo before tlu! fire-lamps were coaxed ablaze), ///- 

 nook-poo-zhee-jook, Tee-ka-fa, Oiv-werk, and some other Innuits of tlic 

 ])lac(* arc iJicscnf. I will ii(»w try and sec if I can approximate the 



