404 The Natives who Visited Franklin^s Ship [May, ises. 



along with me. J\ly particular object was to see a glass bottle or jar, which 

 In-nooJc-poo-zhee-jooJc had told me once belonged to J.^-?oo-A;a's(Crozier's) company, 

 and now possessed by one of the families that arrived to-day. Our first call was 

 on the old man and his family. They had part of a file 1^ inch wide and 2i or 3 

 inches long, round on one side and flat on the other; this was sharpened on one 

 end for use as a cold chisel or an adae. Elc-l:ee-peere-a had lived at OoJc-joo-UJc 

 (O'Reilly Island), and had heard the natives there tell about the ship that came 

 to their country. The ship had four boats hanging at the sides and another was 

 above the <iuarter-deck. The ice about the ship one winter's make; all a smooth 

 floe. A i)lank was found extended from the ship's side down to the ice. 



Gathering into an igloo my interpreters Joe and Jack with In-nook-poo-zhee- 

 jook, and putting before the last-named native McClintock's chart, he readily 

 pointed out the place where the Franklin ship sank. It was very near O'Reilly 

 Island, a little eastward of the north end of said island, between it and Wilmot 

 and Crampton Bay. A native of the island first saw the ship when sealing; it 

 was far oli" seaward, beset in the ice. lie concluded to make his way to it, though 

 at first he felt afraid; got aboard, but saw no one, although from every appear- 

 ance somebody had been living there. At last he ventured to steal a knife, and 

 made off as fast as he could to his home; but on showing the Innuits what he 

 had stolen the men of the place all started off to the ship. The party on getting 

 aboard tried to find out if any one was there, and not seeing or hearing any one, 

 began ransacking the ship. To get into the igloo (cabin), they knocked a hole 

 through because it was locked. They found there a dead man, whose body was 

 very large and heavy, his teeth verj^ long. It took five men to lift this giant 

 koh-lu-na. He was left where they found him. One place in the ship, where a 

 great many things were found, was very dark ; they had to find things there by 

 feeling around. Guns were there and a great many very good buckets and boxes. 

 On my asking if they saw anything to eat on board, the reply was there was 

 meat and tood-iioo in cans, the meat fat and like pemmican. The sails, rigging, 

 and boats — everything about the ship — was in complete order. 



From time to time the Neitchilles went to get out of her whatever they could; 

 they made their plunder into y)iles on board, intending to sledge it to their igloos 

 some time after; but on going again they found her sunk, except the top of the 

 masts. They said they had made a hole in her bottom by getting out one of her 

 timl>ers or planks. The ship was afterward much broken up by the ice, and then 

 masts, timbers, boxes, casks, &c., drifted on shore. A bttle while after this fresh 

 tracks were seen of four men and a dog on the land where the ship was. Innoolc- 



