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hand and heard a noise like foxes, then great hiughter. The fox noise and laugh- 

 ter the boys did not hear until they had thrown away every thing and were run- 

 ning away. Before the boys ran they saw the largest or tallest one of the Et-ler- 

 kiu Avho was very tall make motions with his right hand which was raised high 

 over his head. The motions were swinging motions from the Korth to the South. 

 Soon as the frightened boys got back and repeated what they had seen, the 

 Innuits all were alarmed and the lifting stone was resorted to, which said the 4 

 strange beings were not Et-ler-hin. 



Ar tung un says that a few years ago he was out hunting at Kee- wee-gee a 

 place little back of the line of mountains that run North or Westward of Am-i-toke 

 on a parallel of Am-i-toke when too frightened deer ran swiftly past him. Soon 

 large grey dog came swiftly on their track which the dog followed by scent. 

 When the dog saw him (Ar-tung-un) it stopped. As Ar-tung-un was about to fire 

 an arrow at the beast (dog) he saw that a short string was about its neck — when 

 he carefully unbent his bow and tried to coax the dog to him Kod-lu-na way. 

 The dog appeared i^layful but was too shy to allow Ar-tung-un to catch hold of 

 the string. The dog was following the deer from the North & when Ar-tung-un 

 had tried to catch the dog it ran away to the N. W. as Ar-tung un shows on 

 Parry's chart. The dog had short hair & it did shine very much something like 

 one of the dogs Parry & Lyon had, though larger. It had short ears. String 

 short ; only touched the ground. His curiosity so excited about the strangeness 

 ness of the dog he did not notice what Icind of string it was about the dogs 

 neck. The time that he saw the dog was before Dr. Eae came to Iwilllik the last 

 time. The four or five Et Tcer Un at Ing-near-ing were seen before Dr. Eae came here 

 the first time. The time the four Et-ker-lin seen by Koo-pa & the other two boys 

 was after Dr Eae was here first time as Ar-tung-un thinks and remembers. The 

 dog a very small body, long thin legs & poor, the tail long & curving upward 

 just like one Parry had only much larger; that is, the dog was the same build 

 or form. While Parry's was black, the dog he saw with string around his neck 

 was grey — (like in color one of mine old See-gar let me have, " grey.") Ebierbing 

 says it surely was a grey hound" from Ar-tung-un's description. Ar-tung-un 

 says they had three dogs on board Parry and Lyons ships. Ar-tung-un having 

 said this ; I turned to pages 297 & 299 of Lyon's Private Journal & see that 

 there was a large Newfoundland dog, a grey-hound belonging to Parry & a ter- 

 rier " Spark" belonging to Eeid on board of the "Fury & Hecla." 



(It is with great exertion that I have kept about to day for I have been and 

 am now really sick. I caught a severe cold on the day we laid over at our first 



