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from my couch and asked Lim if he had ever seen any Et-ker-lin. He answered 

 quickly " Na-o " (no). Following this, he hesitated a moment, and then cor- 

 rected himself, and said, many years ago he and Kia and Koo-pa together went 

 after some deer-meat where some deer had been killed ; saw three Et-ker-lin. He 

 then most earnestly and most eloquently described the incident, the same, save a 

 few minor points, as Koo-pa had told me at Eepulse Bay a short time before start- 

 ing on this journey." 



April, 12th, 1868, now 1^ P. M. — Ar-tung-un present as well as half a 

 dozen other Innuits, large and small. I now ask Ar-tung-un about his once find- 

 ing an oot-koo-seek that once belonged to white men (as told me by his son 

 Koo-pa, and secondly by his wife Ar-ua-loo-a yesterday). Old Ar-tung-un has 

 been ankooting and no answer to my question above as yet. Parry's chart before 

 him all the time while ankooting, his withered hand coming down now and then 

 for its fate. I had placed it in our laps for the purjDOse of his showing the locality 

 upon the spread chart so forcibly that I felt alarmed where he found the oot-koo- 

 seek. He is now through ankooting, and proceeds to tell about the matter. 



Ar-tung-un was hunting took-too one summer a long time ago one day's 

 travel from the line of mountains eastward, nearly on a parallel with the point 

 where Lyon turned back when seeking to find a pass through the mountains to 

 the western sea in 1823, when he came to where there had been a tenting-place — 

 the shape of the tent as shown by the stones that had been used to fasten it down 

 square or oblong, long and narrow. It was not such a tent as the Innuits use. 

 The particular spot, near base of a mountain and alongside of a small lake. 



Alongside of the lake he found an ook-koo-seek, about 1 foot by 15 inches 

 and 18 inches deep, as shown by Ar-tung-un's measuring with his hand on Parry's 

 chart. It was tin, and painted red — comjjletely inclosed exceirt a hole in the top of 

 about 3 inches diameter. Inside were some pieces of salmon bones. Besides this 

 oot-koo-seek he found a round can about the size of a tin kettle hanging by our 

 flre-lami), and this was i^ainted red too. No top to this, but there was some very 

 white tallow in it. Never saw any cans painted like this on Captain Parry's or on 

 Lyon's ships. This can was painted all over on the outside, while those on Cap- 

 tains Parry and Lyon's ships were only x^aiuted on the tops, with letters on the 

 tops. On the other side of the fresh-water pond found an earthern stone jug, that 

 is, as Ebierbing says, a jug like one Ar-mou gave me some seal-oil in a little 

 while before we left Repulse Bay, which was an earthen stone jug of light color. 

 This jug Ar-tung-un found had its top broken ofi'. These cans Ar-tung-un found 

 were not rusty, nor was there any moss about them ; was very much surprised at 



