600 Conversations with Innults. [Aphi, ises. 



Igloo encampment on the sea ice of Fox Channel at Oo-soo arku. Thus with my 

 sprained leg I am forced to think myself partially if not wholly an invalid.) 



" Saturday, April 11th, 1868. — The present notes I make + morning, for 

 not until this morning, since Friday night, have I been able to rise from my couch. 

 I shall pencil the notes as if made at the date of the heading. 



This morning, according to my previous arrangement, Nub-er-lik, accom- 

 panied by Frank Lailor, my servant, started off with my sledge and team of dogs 

 for I-gloo-lik to get a load of walrus meat belonging to Nub-er-lik and Too-goo-lat, 

 which meat is for me and party to use on my proposed journey to Fury and Hecla 

 Strait to the Western Sea of Ak koo-lee. Very many calls have I had to-day 

 from the now numerous natives here, all sympathizing in my sickness. Almost 

 every hour a family from Ping-it-ka-lik arrives here, at once coming in to see 

 me, and then proceed to erect an igloo and place their household effects in it. 

 My arrival has caused a small village to grow into quite a city. 



The old woman Ar-na-loo-a, of Parry fame, called in to-day, being her 2d 

 call since her arrival here. She expressed deep sorrow that I was sick, and said 

 she greatly desired that 1 would soon be about again. She says that she was 

 with her husband many years ago when he was hunting deer not a great ways 

 from the mountains west of Am-i-toke. He was on one side of the pond and she 

 walking on the opijosite side. Her husband found a tenting-place at the foot of 

 a mountain close by the pond. He found there a large oot-koo-seek, i^ainted red, 

 and a tin canister of same color, and he saw half a plate down in the water of the 

 pond. There were strong indications that salmon had been cooked in the large 

 tin can, for there were salmon-bones about the can. Everything looked fresh, as 

 if done not long before, for there was no moss or rust about the tin cans. Yet slie 

 and her husband thought no one could have left these things there but Parry or 

 some of his men. The large can now at Too-noo-nee-roo-shuk. The small one was 

 given to her brother, who is now near Ig-loo-lik. There was a fire-place of stone 

 by the tent-place. She saw these things soon after Ar-tung-un found them. Ar- 

 na-loo-a saw the tenting-place near the foot of the mountain by the lake of the 

 party that must have left the cans and made the fire-place. Tliis mountain is 

 some distance to the of the wall of mountains that extend far to the north- 

 ward back or west of Am-i-toke. This evening an Innuit by the name of In-nu 

 came in to see me, he having just arrived from Ping-it-ka-lik, where he and 

 family are stopping. I recognized him at once as having seen him at Ig-loo-lik on 

 my visit last year. Knowing liim to be an Innuit who was of the party of the three 

 boys who saw the reported four Et-ker-hn many years ago, I raised my head 



