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the freshness of everything about them, for he certainly thought that nobody 

 but Parry or some of his ships' companies couhl have tented there and left those 

 things. Alongside of the tenting spot was a fire-place of two stones and which 

 were blackened with smoke. The fire that had been used was the Est-sbu-tiu 

 (Andromeda teitragona), for a Uttle of it was there in a little pile by the fire-place. 

 Everything looked as though it had been done only a little while before. The 

 smoke on the stones would not have been there on simply burning Est-shu-tin 

 more than two or three years, and the wood would have been white and looked 

 very different from what it did in less time, says Ar-tung-un. 



The time when he found these things was before he heard of Dr. Kae being 

 at Iwillik the first time. He heard of Dr. Eae being at Iwillik the next summer 

 after Dr. E. left, which was in 1847. Ar-tung-un does not now think it possible 

 that these things could be left as he found them by Parry or his men, for the 

 salmon meat that he found in the large red can would have gone, and everything 

 else would have looked much older altogether than they did. Koo-pa and the 

 other two natives with him saw the four Et-ker-hn before Ar-tung-un found 

 these things. The place where the Et-ker-lin were seen was not far from where 

 Ar-tung-un found the tenting-place and the things now described. This much 

 has Ar-tung-un told me as a man speaking without any thought of deception. I 

 can read the man like a book. He means to tell the truth, and only the truth. 



An hour after the above interview I was present at a seal-feast at l!food-loo, 

 where was congregated a large number of Innuits; and when through with the 

 feast, with the aid of my "Joe" (Ebierbing), I had a talk with Ar-tung un, in 

 presence of all the Innuits there, for the purpose of testing the memory and accu- 

 racy of the old man. I asked him to tell me about the little dog which Avas on 

 board Pan-y's and Lyon's ship. He said the little dog was a great favorite with 

 everybody, and was a spotted one; one time a wolf came about the ships, and 

 this little dog, with Parry's dog, which was a black one, I'an after the wolf, when 

 several white men liastened after the dogs to bring them back. After a while the 

 men returned, bringing Parry's dog, but they could find nothing of the little pet dog ; 

 so all concluded that the little dog must have been killed and eaten up by the wolf. 

 Next day (continued Ar-tung-un) some of the white men went (mt to see if they 

 could find out what really had become of the little dog. When they returned 

 they brought the head, it being all that they could find of the little dog. He 

 could not remember the name of this dog, but on my telling him it was " Spark" 

 he then smiled and said it sounded just like it. The old man has not only told 

 the facts about this little dog — a terrier — as related by Lyon, whose work I have. 



