604 Conversations with Innuits. [Apru, ises. 



the one I and Oii-e-la passed over from Ig-loo-lik last year. Soon as he, In-nu, 

 and the other boys saw these Indians they threw away their deer meat, leav- 

 ing the dogs with meat on their backs, and then ran with all their might for 

 home. * # * 



Koo-loo-a says that at the same time he was hunting with Kia he had killed 

 a deer and sat himself down on a rock and eat some of the meat. When he was 

 through eating, he went to a small pool or lake to drink. He had put his head 

 down, and just before getting his mouth to the water he heard something crack, 

 which, he says, was ti-ma-na-to (the same) as the crack of guns; — ^he had heard 

 the crack of guns when living at Too-noo-nee (Pond's Bay). He could not tell 

 from which direction the sound came on account of his position in the act of 

 drinking; looked about, but could see no one, and did not hear the noise again. 

 The place was near the N. W. extreme of Melville Peninsula, as he, Koo-loo-a, 

 points out on Parry's chart. Same day Koo-loo-a heard the crack, as he thought, 

 of a gun : while walking around he came to fresh tracks on some grass and 

 the tracks longer than his foot, the tracks so fresh that the blades of earth, 

 grass had not all regained their upright position. Some of the grass was then 

 gradually lifting up as it had been trod upon. The steps long and foot-marks 

 ''turning out." 



iSText morning after hearing the crack and seeing tracks both Koo-loo-a and 

 Kia moved their tents and families away from that place. The next morning 

 after moving, Koo-loo-a went to work fixing the skin of the deer he had killed. 



As Koo-loo-a was late in getting ready, Ki-a started oft" deer-hunting alone. 

 By and by Kia saw a man coming up the hill on which he (Kia) was, coming 

 directly toward him. Kia thought at first the man to be Koo-loo-a, but on look- 

 ing longer and more observingly Kia saw his mistake, for it was not Koo-loo-a, 

 but a strange man having a cap on his head that was distinct from his coat. He 

 saw that he (the stranger) had strange clothes on and carried something strange 

 in a strange way on his shoulder. Kia could not, from his position behind the 

 rock, see much of the stranger's face; the clothes not black nor white; coat 

 on that came down to or almost to his knees ; the make of clothes altogether 

 difi'erent from lunuits. The stranger had something across his shoulder running 

 diagonally; this something was long and wide at one end and narrow at the other 

 end. He was walking rather fast and going directly toward the point on N. W. 

 extremity of Melville Peninsula, as showed by Kia on Parry's chart. Kia fol- 

 lowed tlie stranger n\} for some time and looked sluirp at him. Kia kept himself 

 hid among the rocks all the time. Next morning Kia and Koo-loo-a moved their 



