July, 1869.] Conversation with In-nooh-poo-zhee-jook. 419 



warded after his return (as has been noted on page 339), for Lady 



Franklin's perusal, he had written: 



Friday, July 2, 1869. 



Interview with In-nooli-jpoozliee-jooli ; Hannah my interpreter. Time, about 

 noon. — My first words are that I am about to leave this country for the United 

 States of America; I wish him to tell me the particulars he can think of relative 

 to the white men who died, many years ago, at Ki-ki-tuk, and of the boats he 

 found on that island ; of the ship he has also told me about before, that came 

 down to Ook-joo-lik, &c. I also add that I wish him to be very particular to tell 

 me just what he remembers; to tell the truth and the truth only. 



Question. Who were with you when you found those two boats ? 



Answer. His brother's son Oo-ar-zhoo, now dead; Oolc-pil; Eli-l^e-pe-re-a, and 

 his own son, Neer-liood-loo. The party of men numbered five, and their ftimilies 

 were with them. They were making a tour on purpose to search after such 

 things as they could find that belonged to the white men that had died on King 

 William's Land. 



Question. What particular time of the year was it? 



Answer. Thinks the time of the year about when we returned to this bay 

 encampment, — June 20. Water had begun to make on the ice, and water is a 

 little later making there than here. Snow and ice were inside the boats, and all 

 around.* 



Question. Did the boats look as if anybody had visited them within two or 

 three years f 



Answer. Somebody had been to one of them, for everything was gone out 

 of it. 



Question. What did you find in the other boat — the one that the white men 

 (McClintock's party) from Ik-ke-hi-suk (Bellot Strait) did not find ? 



Answer. Six paddles ; many table-knives, white handles ; one watch ; a spy- 

 glass that his son has, a little longer than Joe's — something like my compass, but 

 no glass about it ; tobacco that had been wet and was in flakes or thin pieces ; 

 very many tin dishes; one whole skeleton with clothes on, — the flesh all on, but 

 dried; many skeleton bones; three skulls. Alongside of the boat a big pile of 



*In a i)revioiis conversation the native had said that ho had found the boats in 1861. 

 "After seeing Dr. Rac on his outward journey (1H54), he came down to Iwillik and staid there 

 three winters; then he spent at Pelly Bay two winters; then he spent on Neitchille one winter; 

 and, the following spring, went to King William's Laud." Which Hall rechoned up thus : Repulse 

 Bay, three winters, or 1854-'55, 1855-'56, and 185(3-'rj7 ; Pelly Bay, two winters, or 1857-'58 and 

 1858-'59 ; Neitchille, one wiuter, 1859-'G0 ; King William's Land, one winter, 1860-'61. Then in 

 the spriug of 18 j1 found the boats. 



