596 Conversations with Innuits. [April, isos. 



icy bed. Still she was troubled to get the watch from the frozen garments with 

 which the body was completely dressed. Finally, the watch and key and chain 

 were obtained entire; and the woman now keeps them very choice, in commemora- 

 tion of the terrible feelings she had when getting them from the dead Kob-lu-na, 

 whom she dug out of the ice with nothing but a heavy, sharp stone. I asked the 

 old lady if this watch was like the one I carried on my person, at the same time 

 showing her Eggert & Son's pocket-chronometer (loaned to me by those parties, of 

 New York), which is an old-fashioned one, of large size, in a heavy double silver case. 

 She had told Too-koo-H-too that it was not so large as this, and she said the same 

 to me. I then drew out from under the took -too furs, where I keep it, a small 

 pocket-chronometer in silver cases (which I have in my i)ossession by the kind- 

 ness of Augustus H. Ward, of New York). Old Ook-bar-loo said it was like 

 this, of the same size and kind ; that is, it was of white (silver) metal. It was 

 not of such metal as my gold pen, though she (Ook-bar-loo) had seen many parts 

 of watches — watches that had been taken to pieces — that were of the same color 

 with my gold pen." 



PAPEE B. 



SOME TALKS WITH INNUITS : NORTH OOGLIT ISLANDS, APRIL, 1868. 



"After the death of Kia, Koo-loo-a thought he would go deer-hunting in that 

 part of the country where Kia had seen the strange person, as he believed he 

 might find something that would be useful to him thereabouts, and as he wanted 

 some wood with which he might make arrows and spear-handles between Ar-lang- 

 ung-ii and the N. W. cape of Melville Peninsula. He hunted, but found nothing 

 he sought for. Here I asked if he, Koo-loo-a, during his search, found any piles 

 of stone, called In-nook-shoo by the natives. He replied that he did. I then got 

 Eae's chart and placed it before us. Koo-loo-a soon comprehended its nature, and 

 then said that the extreme N. W. part of Melville Peninsula, and the sea by it of 

 the chart was not as the land and water really arc. He said that quite a large 

 river runs from the eastward nearly parallel with Adge-go (Fury and Hecla Strait), 

 and empties its waters into a bay very near to Cape Ellice of Eae's discovery in 

 1847. Near the river, south side of it, Koo-loo-a found a Monument of stone on a 

 crest of rising ground, and a little to one side, west of the Monument, where a 

 curious kind of cache had been made of stones. The cache had been opened and 

 the stones all thrown one side. The Monument and the cache stones all showed 

 a great degree of freshness. He did not think they were the work of any luniiit. 



