May. 1809.] The Tent and Boat Found hy In-noolc-poo-zhee-jook. 405 



poo-zhee-joolc, who had seeu lloss and his party on tlw Victory and Eae in 1854, 

 knew these tracks to be koh-lu-nas') the foot-marks were lonj?, narrow in the mid- 

 dle, and the prints like as if of the boots found in the two boats found on King 

 William's Land. One man, from his running- steps, was a very gieat runner — very 

 long steps. The natives tracked the men a long distance, and found where they 

 had killed and eaten a young deer. 



Another native at this interview told nearly the same story of the ship and 

 of the man found on board, adding that he was found dijad on the floor, his 

 clothes all on ; that the ship was covered all over with sails or tent stufl". The 

 cabin was down below and not on deck. The time was about the middle of May 

 or first of June. 



In-nooli-poo-zhee-joolc said that he had found a boat (a. little Avay westward of 

 the one found by Hobson), the planks, ribs, and all com])lete, and copper fastened. 

 In the boat were a great many skeletons, the skulls with them. He gave mc a 

 double-bladed knife, with a white bone handle, very rusty. It came from this 

 boat. The boat had not been touched, and a great many papers and books and 

 written stutf were in it. [These are all trash to the Innuits; the winds and the 

 weather had made destructive work with them. The Innuits would trample 

 them under feet as if grass.] 



A tent was near this boat; it was on the top of some rising ground on a 

 small sandy hill. The place, as pointed out on the chart, was near the bottom of 

 Terror Bay, a little way northerly of the point adjacent to Fitz James Inlet. The 

 tent was large, and made with a ridge-pole resting on a perpendicular pole at 

 either end; small ropes extended from top of the tent at each end to the ground, 

 where the rope-ends were fast to sticks driven into the ground. 



Three men, one of whom was Tee-l-ee-ta, first saw the tent. It had in it 

 blankets and bedding, a great many skeleton bones and skulls, the flesh all oft'; 

 nothing except sinews attached to them; the appearance as though foxes and 

 wolves had gnawed the flesh; some bones had been sawed with a saw; some 

 skulls had holes in them. Besides the blankets, were tin cups, spoons, forks, 

 knives, two double-barrel guns, pistols, lead balls, a great many powder-flasks, 

 and both books and papers written upon. As these last were good for nothing 

 for Innuits, the men threw them away, except one book, which Tee-ka-ta brought 

 home and gave to the children ; after a while it got torn to pieces. 



On asking Tee-kee-ta whether Ag-loo-ka (Crozier) had a telescope 

 about him when he visited one of the tents of the Innuits, he repHed : 



