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flesh of the kob-lu-nas. It was some time after this that she saw the five skulls 

 she first spoke of as having seen. She saw these bodies entire one winter after 

 Poo-yet- ta found them, and the clothes these men had on were blade; — their 

 kum-mins (boots) those men had on were of the same kind of leather as the belt 

 I have given to In-nook-poo-zhe-jook 5 tanned leather from the United States. 

 Were these men buried? Answer. No, they were lying as they had died, on 

 the top of the ground. Where are the skeletons now ? Answer. On this island, 

 some in one place and some in another, but all are under the snow ; have tried to 

 find them since we arrived here, but the snow covers them so deep cannot find 

 even one bone. When snow is gone all the bones can be seen. Did you ever hear 

 of any white men dying on Ke-ki-tuk-ju-a (Montreal Island) ? No, never. Did 

 you ever go to the place where the boat with many dead kob-lu-nas were found by 

 the Innuits on the other side of the strait? Yes, I have been there. Where is the 

 place ? I now show her Kae's chart, and have shown it to her before, but not for 

 the object I now have. On ascertaining the position of Point Ogle, Miscononchie 

 Isle, and Point Eichardson, she puts her finger on the west side of the inlet west 

 side of Point Eichardson, and says that was the place where the boat was found. 

 Did you see any bones of white men there ? She did ; the land low and muddy 

 there; the sea-water close to; saw pieces of the boat, after the Innuits had broken 

 it up. Can bones — skeleton bones — be seen there now, when snow and ice are 

 gone ? Answer. She thinks not, for it is so muddy there, and the mud soft, that 

 they have all sunk down into it. She continues : One man's body when found by 

 the Innuits, flesh all on, not mutilated, except the hands sawed off at the wrists; 

 the rest, a great many had their flesh cut off as if some one or other had cut it off 

 to eat. 



I now go further on this island than our igloo is, for this woman to show me 

 where she saw the five dead men before they were partially eaten by dogs. 



Tuk-pee-too and his wife E-vee-shuk, with one of their little ones, have just 

 taken a walk with me, the woman leading me to the place where the five men died. 

 It is the southeastern end of the island, within 20 fathoms of the shore. I have 

 just marked the spot, on which we shall erect a monument, over which we shall 

 pay our humble tribute to the noble dead. 



ONE OF HALL'S CONVERSATIONS WITH IN-NOOK-POO-SHE-JOOK AFTER HIS RETURN 



FROM KING WILLIAM'S LAND. 



July 5, 1869. — Another short interview with In-nook-poo-she-j 00k this morn- 

 ing about ten o'clock, just before he and the Innuits started oft* on a sealing ex- 

 cursion. Ar-mou assisted me in this brief talk^ as Joe and Hannah were both 



