July, 1869.] McClintoch^s Revolver. 421 



on this second visit, that there is occasionally a season when a shij) can sail 

 through that strait (Victoria Strait). In-noolc-poo-zhee-joolc furtlier said that before 

 he visited Ki-ki-tuk (King William's Land) a Neitchille Innuit found a large knife 

 under some stones; and he pointed out the place as Livingston Point, south side 

 of Latrobe Bay. 



Question. Was not this knife placed there b^' some Innuit? No. Did the 

 white men from Ik-ke-hi-shuk place it there? No; but those white men did i)ut 

 some things on the land in another place far off from there: among them a small 

 gun (like Hall's — a revolver). These things the Innuits found and took. Koonf/- 

 ou-c-lool; at Pelly Bay, has the revolver. 



" Had I known this," adds Hall, "when 1 met Kooiigou-e-loolc at our thirty- 

 seventh encampment on Becher River, I would have got sight of this stolen 

 revolver which Lieutenant McClintock so unfortunately deposited in the land of 

 thieves. The Neitchille Innuits will steal whenever they can get a chance — even 

 one Innuit from another. When I escaped from this latter evil on my late sledge 

 journey to King; William's Land it was because ' Jerry ' told Julc-lcee-ta (Jerry's 

 own cousin) to tell all the Innuits about us when at that twenty-seventh encamp- 

 ment, near Cape Dryden, that they must not steal from the white man (that 

 is from me) or from any of his (my) men; because if they did they would get 

 terribly i)unished if they ever came to I wil lik, and saw any ship here. This 

 Avas a sharp, commendable trick, of ' Jerry's' own invention, and it had a most 

 desirable result." 



Fuller details of like conversations held about this time, and of 

 some of those held on King William's Land and on Todd's Island, will 

 be found in paper C of Appendix IV. The inquiries and the test 

 questions appear to have been generally close. Instances in which 

 Hall expresses a doubt as to the consistency of the statements made 

 by the natives have been omitted from the extracts, and Arctic 

 travelers will best judge of the value of those which are given; they 

 will remember that natives, when compensated for their talks, may 

 have willingly extended them. Hall certainly liberally paid his 

 friends for their services. He gave Nulcerzlioo, in 1869, even his boat 

 Sylvia for accompanying him to Ki-ki-tuk, and found that he must 



