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tents and families to the same place as when Kia saw the strange man, and then 

 they all saw the stranger's tracks, which showed a long foot narrow in the middle. 

 Same day Koo-loo-a, while hunting, saw the monument and cache stones he has 

 before described. From there (the place where the tents were, the place where 

 strange man had been seen) Koo-loo-a and Kia with their families removed down 

 to Ar-lang-na-zhu (Garry Bay), and thej saw nothing more of the kind he (Koo- 

 loo-a) has been describing. Now 0^ SO"" P. M.; Koo-loo-a and all the Innuits are 

 asked to get at the year when the above took place. In 15 minutes the answer 

 comes by the show of 13 raised fingers = thirteen years ago last Fall. This brings 

 it out that it was in 1854 that Kia saw the white man that I have not the least 

 doubt was one of Sir J. Franklin's men. # * * 



Now I commence a talk with Oo-shoo, the wife of Too-goo-lat, the latter the 

 brother of the good and kind-hearted In nu-men, now of Eepulse Bay, but lately 

 of Ig-loo-bk ; Oo-shoo is the daughter of Tak-ee-lik-ee-ta, whose portrait Lyon so 

 faithfully drew for Parry's Narrative of his second voyage for the discovery of the 

 N. W. Passage. Oo-shoo says that she was at Koong-wa (the Narrows uniting the 

 N. Pole Lake with Christie Lake) many years ago, where a party of her people was 

 stopping, deer-hunting, in the fall. There at tVr- Narrows deer were killed, and 

 some placed on deposit under stones ; a pile of Est-shoo-lin (dwarf of shrub An- 

 dromeda tetragona), for fuel, was picked by Oo-shoo and the wife of Qua-sher. 

 By and by Qua-sher and Too-goo-lat took their ki-as and proceeded on toward 

 See-jak-big. Too-koo-lat's steiD-father (an old man), with the two women and Oo- 

 shoot and Kan-wong-a (wife of Qua-sher) stopped a while at Koong-wa, then 

 moved along on the land by Christie Lake in the direction Qua-sher and Too-koo- 

 lat had proceeded. Half-way to Nu-ker-ta (the place where Ar-too-a was drowned) 

 the woman and the old man made a stop, tenting there. While the old man re- 

 mained at the tent, the woman, Oo-shoo and Kan-wong-a, went back to Koong- 

 wa (the Narrows) after some meat and things they could not carry the first time, 

 and then, after getting what they wanted, they started back. By and by, want- 

 ing to rest, they sat down on a stone, and soon Oo-shoo saw what she thought to 

 be two Innuits 5 soon came to the tracks of two men, which greatly frightened 

 the women. The tracks were those of two men — of one large man ; the tracks of 

 the two narrow in the middle and long. Before the women got to their tents 

 they heard a noise, a shouting noise, but they thought it must have been the old 

 man they left at the tent. When they got back to the tent, Oo-shoo asked the 

 old man if he had been shouting, and he said no. They told the old man aU 

 about what they had seen and heard. * # # 



