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from the natives ; none died ; in summer they 

 all went away, taking with them two natives, a 

 father and his son. We could not ascertain the 

 name of the white chief, nor the interval of time 

 since they wintered amongst the Esquimaux, 

 as our friends could not recollect these par- 

 ticulars.* 



The name of the locality, A-wee-lik (spelt as 

 written down at the moment), may be considered 

 identical with " Ay-wee-lik," the name of the 

 land about Repulse Bay in the chart of the 

 Esquimaux woman, Iligliuk (Parry's ' Second 

 Voyage,' p. 197). 



We were of course greatly surprised to find 

 that Dr. Rae's visit to Repulse Bay was known 

 to this distant tribe ; and also disappointed to 

 find they had heard nothing of Franklin's Back- 

 River parties through the same channel of com- 

 munication. They were anxiously and repeat- 

 edly questioned, but evidently had not heard of 

 any other white people to the westward, nor of 

 their having perished there. 



Ow-wang-noot lived at Igloolik in his early 

 days, and made a chart of the lands adjacent, 

 but said he was so young at the time that " it 

 seemed like a dream to him." He was ac- 



* Dr. Rae wintered at Repulse Bay in atone huts in 1846-7. Again 

 wintered there in snow huts in 1853-4. 



