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kayaks, bringing whalebone, narwhals' horns, 

 &c., to barter. Next to handsaws and files, they 

 attached the greatest value to knives and large 

 needles. These men remained on board for 

 nearly two days, and drew several charts for 

 us. Noo-luk explained that seven or eight 

 days' journey to the southward there are two 

 wrecks a short day's journey apart. The south- 

 ern is in an inlet or strait which contains 

 several islands, but here his knowledge of the 

 coast terminates. The man A-ra-neet said he 

 visited these wrecks five ^\anters ago. All of 

 them agreed that it is a very long time since 

 the wrecks arrived upon the coast ; and Noo- 

 luk, who appears to be about forty-five years 

 of age, showed us how tall he was at the time. 



In the ' Narrative of Parry's Second Yoyage,' 

 at p. 437, mention is made of the arrival at 

 Igloolik of a sledge constructed of ship-timber 

 and staves of casks ; also of two ships that had 

 been driven on shore, and the crews of which 

 went away in boats. In August, 1821, nearly 

 two years previous to the arrival of this report 

 through the Bsquiinaux to Igloolik, the whalers 

 ' Dexterity ' and * Aurora ' were wrecked upon 

 the west coast of Davis' Strait, in lat. 72°, 70 or 

 80 miles southward of Pond's Bay. The old 

 man, Ow-wang-noot, drew the coast-line north- 



