December, 1864.J Convcrsations with Innuits. 591 



were in the ice near Neitcbillo many years ago. The Innnits wislied to live near 

 that place (where the ships were) but conld not kill anything for their food. 

 They (the Innuits) really believed that the presence of the Koblunas (whites) in 

 that part of the country was the cause of all their (the Innuits') trouble." 



Mother Ook-bar-loo continued — " One man would not eat the flesh of his 

 frozen and starved companions, and therefore wheu her nephew, Too-shoo-ar- 

 thar-i-u, found Aglooka (Crozier) and three other Koblunas with him, Aglooka, 

 who was the one that would not eat human flesh, was very thin and almost 

 starved. One of the three men with Aglooka died, for he was very sick. He did 

 not die from hunger, but because he was very sick. * * * 



The two an-nat-kos at Neitch-ille were very bad, for they ankooted on pur- 

 pose to have the Kob-lu-nas that were in the two ships two years in the ice all 

 starved to death. Sometimes Neitchille an-nat-kos act very badly. 



December Sth, 1864. — This evening I have had another talk with Ou-e-la, 

 Shoo-she-ark-nuk and Ar-too-a about some of the men of Franklin's Expedition. 

 The man who caught seals for Ag-loo-ka (Crozier) and some of his men — the three 

 with him — is their cousin. His name is Too-shoo-ar-thar-i-u. When he first 

 found Crozier and the three men with them, Crozier's face looked bad — his eyes all 

 sunk in — looked so bad that their cousin could not bear to look at his face. Their 

 cousin gave Crozier a bit of raw seal as quick as he could when he first saw him. 

 Did not give any to the other three, for they were fat and had been eating the 

 flesh of their companions. It was near Neitch-il-le that this occurred on the ice. 

 This cousin is now living at Neitch-il-le. When Too-shoo-ar-thar-i-u first saw 

 Crozier and the men with him, he was moving, having a loaded sledge drawn by 

 dogs 5 he was going from place to place, making Igloos on the ice — sealing — he 

 had with him his wife, whose name is E-laing-nur, and children. Crozier and his 

 men had guns and plenty of powder, shot and ball. The cousin took Crozier and 

 his men along with him, and fed them and took good care of them all winter. Be- 

 side a high cliff Innuits saw something like Now-yers (gulls) fall down to the 

 ground, dead, and would not touch them, for Crozier had done something to 

 them — they (the Innuits) knew not what. In the summer Crozier and his men 

 killed with their guns a great many birds, ducks, geese and rein-deer. Crozier 

 killed many — very many of the latter. The Innuits saw him do it. A Neitchille 

 Innuit went with Crozier and his remaining two men when they started to go to 

 their country. They had a kiak with which to cross rivers and lakes. They 

 went down toward Ook-koo-seek-ka-lik (the estuary of Great Fish or Back's Eiver). 

 Then- cousin liked Croiner very much. Crozier wanted to give their cousin his 



