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bank, fell into the water and was drowned. These same white men killed a 

 large party of Eskimos just below Bloody fall on the Coppermine river. Avranna 

 had seen the skulls of their victims there, some protruding above ground, some 

 buried underneath the surface.' 



(6) (Told by Uloqsaq) 



Long ago, when a large party of Eskimos were living on the ice near the 

 mouth of the Coppermine river, and all the men had gone sealing, a body of 

 white men attacked the camp and killed all the women and children except three, 

 a woman, her child, and another child. Then the white men went on their way 

 and built a snow hut at the foot of a high cliff. When the Eskimos returned 

 from sealing and found all their women and children slain, save these three who 

 had hidden away, they were filled with grief and rage, and, seizing their weapons, 

 they followed in the white men's trail. Overtaking them, they built a snow wall 

 all round their hut to prevent anyone from escaping, then speared all the white 

 men except one, who flew up into the air and disappeared. 



Cf. Boas, Bulletin, A.M.N.H., Vol. XV, pt. I, p. 315, S41f.; Hawkes, p. 151. 



(c) (Told by Uloqsaq) 



Near the Rae river there were three Eskimo settlements. A party of 

 white men came from the west and completely destroyed both the first and the 

 second. They would have killed all the Eskimos in the third settlement also, 

 but the latter changed into musk-oxen and fled. Then the white men travelled 

 about looking for more Eskimos to kill. A shaman named Kalupik, however, 

 brought his magic to bear on them and prevented them from approaching his 

 fellow-countrymen. A man cut off the legs of Kalupik one night as he lay 

 sleeping. When he wakened in the morning he saw them lying on the floor 

 ■where his enemy had thrown them down. He began to weep, but presently 

 dried his eyes and by the power of his magic restored them into place. 



(d) (Told by Aneraq) 



Near the country of the Netsilingmiut a large ship was crushed in the ice 

 long ago, and many white men went down in her.^ In the same locality a number 

 of Eskimos once died of starvation. 



75. The Ravages of the Brown Bear 

 (Told by Uloqsaq) 



A brown bear once lived at Killivik or Nagyuktok (two names for the same 

 place, in the south of Victoria island) . One day it grew very big, bigger than 

 any other living animal. It crossed over the strait to Kilusiktok and ate 

 all the Eskimos there. This region at that time was thickly inhabited, much 

 more so than it is now. But all these Eskimos were eaten by the brown bear, 

 and the present day inhabitants are immigrants from surrounding places. 



76. The Destruction of the Kilusiktok Eskimos 

 (Told by Uloqsaq) 



Long ago at Kilusiktok a great number of people were travelling towards 

 the coast to begin the winter's sealing. In play they began to throw lumps of 

 snow at one another. Presently the snow-balls went up and up into the sky 

 and never came down again. The people could not see what became of them, 

 but they changed into spirits and killed a great many Eskimos at Kilusiktok, 

 Nenitak and Nagyuktok. This happened when the narrator of the story was a 

 little boy. 



» These were probably the relics of the Eskimos massacred by Hearne's party of Chipewyan Indians in 1759. 

 They were seen by Richardson and Rae's party in 1851. 



2 This may possibly refer to the fate of Sir John FrankUn and his party. 



