598 Conversations with Innuits. [Aprii, ises. 



he was too late getting out of bed, but not thinking it possible there could be 

 any Kob-lu-uas about he thought the strangers must be Indians. The Innuits 

 were all so frightened that the next day they removed from Ing-near-ing to an 

 island Ki-ki-tuk-che-uk. Following the removal many Innuits together went 

 deer hunting when two of their number Ar-tung-un one of the two stopped while 

 the others went on — stopped to hunt deer together. The two men or natives 

 Ar-tung-un & an Innuit now dead, Al-er-gaite, were walking when all at once they 

 heard the bang of a gun as Ar tung un thought, for he had heard guns fired many 

 times when Parry and Lyon's shij)s were at Igloo lik — then looked around to see 

 what made the noise and by and by heard another gun rei)ort when they saw the 

 smoke as of a tired gun not far off, arise from behind some land & immediately 

 two took too (deer) came running swiftly from that same place from whence they 

 heard the gun and saw the smoke. Then Ar-tung-un and his companion were 

 terribly frightened and ran to their tents and at once removed their families from 

 the main land to South Oo glit by the means of their ki-as ; the distance to Ing- 

 near-ing, two sleeps or three days from this island, N. Oo glit. jS^ever saw anything 

 more of those Et-ker lin. 



l!5"ow x\r-tung-un tells about his son Koo-pa and other Innuits that saw Et- 

 ker-lin. One time (not a great whileafter the above) Ar-tung-un & Al-er-gaite went 

 deer hunting at the same place where they went deer hunting before together 

 when they heard the gun reports & saw the smoke at the last report. The par- 

 ticular place Ar-tung-un now marks out on Parry's chart & he shews the place 

 to be by one of two or three small lakes that extend to the Westward of the very 

 large lake I discovered and passed over last year on my return to Eepulse Bay 

 from Igloolik. The place is near the line of mountains Parry has upon his 

 chart »& on a parallel with Og-big seer ping, or as Parry calls it Agivijyerwicl: 

 They killed two deer & made a cache of them & returned to their tents wheu 

 they sent three boys after them. The boys were Koo-pa, In-nu, & Kia ; the latter 

 (Kia) In-nu-men's brother. Al-er-gaite was the one who returned to the tent first; 

 that is, he got back before Ar-tung-un for the latter lemained out overnight to 

 watch a deer that he had shot with an arrow which remained sticking in the 

 deer's side. Al-er-gaite was the one that sent the 3 boys after the two deer. 

 When Ar-tung-un got back the boys had returned without the deer meat — had 

 left the meat, dogs and all, for they had seen four Et-ker-lin near where the two 

 deer had been deposited. After the deer had been put apart upon the backs of 

 the dogs and a part prepared and put upon their (the boys') own shoulders they 

 saw uiK)n a hill not far off four Et ker lin each with something like a stick in his 



