744 THE WORLD'S WONDERS. 



The old man and his wife agreed in saying that the ship on 

 board of which they had often seen Franklin was overwhelmed 

 with heavy ice in the spring of the year. While the ice was 

 slowly crushing it, the men all worked for their lives in getting 

 out provisions ; hut, before they could save much, the ice turned 

 the vessel down on its side, crushing the masts and breaking a 

 hole in her bottom, and so overwhelming her that she sank at 

 once, and had never been seen again. Several men at work in 

 her could not get out in time, and were carried down with her 

 and drowned. On this account Crozier's company had died of 

 starvation, for they had not time to get the provisions out of her. 

 Crozier and one other white man the latter called " Nar-tar"" 

 (steward), started and went toward Great Fish or Back's River, 

 saying they were going there on their way home. That was the 

 last they saw of them, but they heard of them some time after 

 from a Kin-na-pa-too, who said he and his people heard shots or 

 reports of guns of strangers somewhere near Chesterfield Inlet. 

 On getting the Innuits to try to pronounce the word "doctor," 

 they invariably said "nar-tar." This made Hall think that the 

 white man with Crozier was some one called " doctor" perhaps 

 Surgeon MacDonald, of Franklin's ship, the Erebus. 



Another ship was spoken of as having been seen near Ook- 

 goo-lik, which was in complete order, having three masts, and 

 four boats hanging at the davits whale-ship like. For a long 

 time the Innuits feared to go on board; but on the report by 

 one of them that he had seen one man on the vessel alive, many 

 of the natives visited it, but saw nothing of the man. They 

 then rummaged everywhere, taking for themselves what they 

 wanted, and throwing overboard guns, powder, ball and shot. 



At an interview with the mother of Too-shoo-art-thar-iu, whose 

 son saw Crozier on the island of Ook-goo lik, Hall was told that 

 during the previous summer or winter the In.iuits of Ook-goo-lik 

 hud found two boats with dead white men in t^em the boats on 

 sledges, and that an Esquimau then had one of Mie sledges. 



This information excited Hall very much with an eager desire 

 to go at once to the place where the stranded vessel was reported 



