April, 1S6S.] Conversations with Innuits. 597 



He looked carefully about where the cache had been made for the object to learn 

 what had been deposited there. No signs that any meat had , ever been put 

 there. He does not think that any Innuit had ever before been so high up 

 from Ar-lang-na-zhu (Garry Bay of Eae's chart). Koo-loo-a was with Kia on 

 the deer-hunt when the latter saw the strange man, though not present at the 

 time when Kia sighted and followed the strange man. A short time before 

 Kia saw the stranger in black clothes Koo-loo-a felt thirsty and came to a 

 lake. He had laid himself down to take a draught of water, and at the very 

 instant he was placing his face down to it, he heard a loud crack, which he 

 thought must be of a gun, for when small and living at Too-noo-nee (Pond's Bay) 

 he had become familiar with the reports of the guns of white men that came 

 there to kill whales. He was at the time so far from the sea that it could not 

 have been the noise of ice cracking. Kia was very particular in telling him all 

 about the strange man he had seen on Koo-loo-a and Kia meeting each other. 

 The strange man was tall and carried some long thing on his shoulder and walked 

 very fast. He had a cap on his head that was independent of his coat, but there 

 was a hood to the long dark coat he had on. Kia kept himself hid behind the 

 rocks and followed the strange man — for some time. Not long after Kia saw the 

 strange man, that he (K.) thought must be an Indian; Kia heard a loud crack, 

 which made him think of ice cracking, but the sea was too far off to hear so plain. 



Friday April 10th, 1868, — This another gloriously fine day — succeeding days 

 of cloudless ones. VHP SO"" A. M. With Ar-tung-un I am now to have a talk. 

 I may here say that Too-loo-ar-chu and Ar-tung-un are both old men who remem- 

 ber well Parry & Lyon's visit to Ig-loo-lik. Parry was the attata (or father, so 

 called of Too-loo-ar-chu, & as he (T.) says), Parry wanted much to have his parents 

 consent that he should go home with him to England. Too-loo-ar-chu first saw 

 Parry & Lyon at Nu-ee-u-new-gu-a (Winter island) Too-koo-li-too my Interpreter. 



I now ask Ar-tung-un if he ever heard of Et ker lin (Indians) being in this 

 country. Ar-tung-un says many years ago a little while before Koo-pa and his 

 companions got so frightened by Et-ker-lin, many natives were there stopping at a 

 place called Ing-near-ing up a large Bay to the IsT. E. of Igloolik where one night 

 in the fall of the year just before the time for snow the dogs commenced barking 

 furiously when many Innuits sprang out of their beds and went out of their tents 

 to see what was the cause. Some four or five Et-ker lin (Indians) were seen pass- 

 ing along each conveying in his hand something like a stick. It was not so dark 

 but that their figures were distinctly seen cutting sharj^ly the back ground, which 

 was the sky. Ar-tung-un was not one of the natives that saw those Indians for 



