606 Conversations ivith Innuits. iway. isbo. 



PAPEE C. 



J OTTINGS ON A SLEDGE JOURNEY. 



I. — INFORMATION PICKED UP MAY 8, 1869. 



Crozier had a little book as he sat in Ow-wer's tent, and wrote notes. He 

 said, while in the tent, "Ag-loo-ka wonger," flatting his own breast. Outside, he 

 said he was going to I-wil-lik, making- motions with his hand in that direction. 

 ISJ^o dog with Ag-loo-ka's company ; now-yers, geese, and dncks hanging to the 

 boat. One man only very fat, the others all poor. One man with Crozier in Ow- 

 wer's tent said. Tier-kin wonger. One man with one of his upper teeth gone, and 

 one with marks on the indent or saddle of his nose. Trouble thought to be 

 among the men ; but not so. They were putting up the tent and stopped, star- 

 ing at the Innuits. When Crozier spoke to them then, they at once resumed their 

 work. The Innuits left Crozier and men encamped there, and moved inland, sus- 

 picious that they abandoned starving men. Crozier described to them the ice 

 destroying their vessel, his men dying; the full meaning comprehended afterward 

 by the Innuits. An awning over the boat, roof-like. No sword worn by Crozier. 

 In a little bay were Crozier's party when the Innuits first saw them. One man 

 cross-eyed or squinted. Same boat found on mainland, (or rather isle, as the tide 

 is high on the west side of inlet of Point Richardson.) 



Crozier, while in Ow-wer's tent, eat a piece of seal, raw, about as big as fore 

 and next fingers to first joint. 



II.— MAY 11, 1869. 



Poo-yet-ta was the Innuit who first found these remains of the five whites. 

 The remains, some not buried, but some found lying down on the high parts of 

 the island, all close together, and each fully dressed ; flesh all on the bones, and 

 unmutilated by any animals. Next to Too-loo-a's body, was one preserved-meat 

 can. This can found by Poo-yet-ta beside the body of Too loo-a unopened. It 

 was opened by the Innuits and found to contain meat and much tood-noo M'ith it. 

 No bad smell to it. The contents eaten by the Innuits. The meat and fat very 

 sweet and good. A jack-knife found in the pocket of one of the five men. 



The graves of the two men (white) that are buried on the point of King Will- 

 iam's Land on the east side the mouth of Pefifer River were found by Nee-wik- 

 tee-too, a Neitchille Innuit now dead. His widow, the old lady with shaking head 

 at twenty-seventh encampment, whom I saw when there. The bodies buried by 



