April, 1868.1 Conversations with Innuits. 603 



witli me, but has told this mucli more, that the do^- was spotted, and that its head 

 "was found. I asked Ai-tun^-un if Parry or any of his (Parry's) i)eopIe ever had 

 a tent or a party at King-rae-toke-big for the purpose of killing ducks in the 

 summer or for any other purpose. He said " No"; the reason some Innuits think 

 so is because some beans and what was conjectured to be a Kob-lu-na tentnig- 

 place were found there. Ar-tung-un said Parry and Lyon used to have liunting 

 parties stationed at Ar-lang-nuk, but not farther south. 



IS^ORTH Oo-GLiT ISLES, Monday, April 13th, 1868. — This morning it was 

 found that the ice-floe was passing in uj^on the island from the eastward ; there- 

 fore the walrus-hunters Avere aroused early. Before VI^ A. M. my igloo had the 

 better half of a very huge walrus on its floor, which Too-goo-lut, brother of Ik- 

 ku-men, now of Repulse Bay, killed as soon as he got upon the drifting-ice. Soon 

 as the walrus was killed, Ebierbing took our dogs and drew in the part as indi- 

 cated above. 



I am waiting here at N. Oo-glit Isle for the natives to get a sufficient sui)ply 

 of walrus-meat for me and party to make a journey to the northern part of Mel- 

 ville Peninsula adjoining Fury and Hecla Strait, and then search for white men, 

 or such indications as may exist there to prove the truth of the many reliable 

 statements that have been made to me by some of the Innuits now of Repulse Bay 

 but formerly of Ig-loo-lik, and by some of the natives of this place; I am stop- 

 ping also for more kow (walrus-hide) for the dog's food. 



Wednesday, April irjth, 1868.— Now, X''-10™ A. M., and I have just had a 

 most j)romi)t response to my invitation for certain Innuits to come to my igloo 

 and have a good talk with me. The following Innuits are present seated around 

 me on our bed-i)latforms in our capacious igloo: 



Old i^eoi^le that saw Parry: Ar-tung-un and wife Ar-na-loo-a, Ag-loo-ka, 

 Koo-loo-a, Too-loo-ar-choo, Oo-shoo, daughter of Tuk-kee-lik-e-ta; Tu-mu-king, 

 In-noo-zhoo, Ek-ke-ra, In-uii, wife of Arng-na-look-shoo-shark ; Ebierbing and 

 Too-koo-li-too ; Papa and wife. 



The talk begins with In-nu (Joe and Hannah, interpreters) : 



One time long ago In-nu, Kia, and Koo-pa went after some deer meat. When 

 they got there, they saw three men on the top of a hill close by; they had such 

 clothes on that they shook very much in the wind. They all were sure thej' were 

 not Innuits, but thought them to be Et-ker-lin (Indians). In-nu was so frightened 

 he cannot remember what these men had in their hands. Cannot tell whether 

 their clothes were light or dark. The place, near the high land west of Am-i-toke, 

 between the large lake Tess-u-e-ark and the high land west of it; the large lake, 



