252 BARTER WITH NATIVES. Chap. XIII. 



Tlie latter also told us that the body of a man 

 was found on board the ship ; that he must have 

 been a very large man, and had long teeth : 

 this is all he recollected having been told, for 

 he was quite a child at the time. 



They both told us it was in the fall of the 

 year — that is, August or September — when the 

 ships were destroyed ; that all the white 

 people went away to the " large river," taking 

 a boat or boats with them, and that in the 

 following winter their bones were found there. 



These two Esquimaux families had been up 

 as far north as the Tasmania Group * in lati- 

 tude 71 i° N., and were returning to Neitchillee, 

 hunting seals by the way ; those we met at 

 Cape Victoria had already gone there. The 

 nearest natives to us at present, they said, were 

 residing at the island of Amitoke, ten days' 

 journey distant from here. Can this Amitoke 

 be Matty Island ? 



We purchased some seal's blubber and flesh, 

 as well as their two only dogs ; but next morning 

 Oo-na-lee repented his bargain, or feigned to do 

 so, but as he came without the knife to exchange 



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These islands were so named by me, at the request of Lady 

 Franklin, in grateful acknowledgment of many proofs of affectionate 

 sympathy received from the colony over which her husband pre- 

 sided for several years, and, in particular, of the large contributions 

 raised there in aid of her expeditions of search. 



