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ried a brother of one " Chummy" (a man that visited the States 

 in 1861-2). By him she had two children ; one died young, and 

 the other is now living and married. 



The eighth and last child was another daughter, Oo-yar-ou-ye- 

 ung, who married and had two children, a boy and girl. The 

 latter was named Oo-kood-lear, and I was well acquainted with 

 her. 



These were the children and grandchildren of old Oo-ki-jox-y 

 Ni-noo. Now let me turn to the account of Ugarng. 



This man was born at or near Newton's Fiord, in Frobisher 

 Bay, and was about 50 or 55 years old. From his early days he 

 displayed great qualities as a daring and successful hunter. Many 

 of his well-attested exploits border on the incredible, so marvel- 

 ous did they seem. Not a few, possibly, I shall be able to relate 

 farther on. Perhaps, however, not among the least of them may 

 be considered the fact that he had had no less than thirteen wives ; 

 and, at the period I formed his acquaintance, had three living 

 with him. His first wife, Ak-chur-e-you, he left, long before she 

 died, because she bore him no children ; his second, Oo-soo-kong, 

 gave him a son and daughter; both, with herself, dead. The 

 third wife was alive, but left at Padley. Afterward she had two 

 children by another man. The fourth also had two children hj 

 another man ; the fifth hung herself after giving him a daughter, 

 now 14 years old. The sixth — still alive, and related to Tookoo- 

 lito — had no children ; the seventh was Kun-ni-u, whom I shall 

 frequently name. She likewise had no children up to the time 

 of my last seeing her; the eighth was Kou-nung, who had two 

 children by another man — the children now grown up and mar- 

 ried. The ninth was Kofckong, or Pun-nie, his present second 

 wife, but with no children ; the tenth was Ak-chuk-er-zhun, who, 

 however, left him and went to live with Kooperneung (" Charley"). 1 

 a man I often afterward employed. The eleventh wife of Ugarng 

 was Nik-u-jar ("Polly"), by whom he had a child called Menoun, 

 about three years old when I last saw it. Nikujar died while I 

 was up there. She had been the wife of Blind George, alread}' 

 mentioned, but left him a few years after he became blind. 



Ugarng was a remarkably intelligent man and a very good 

 mechanic. He had several excellent traits of character, besides 

 some not at all commendable. 



In 1854-5 he was on a visit to the States, and among his remi- 

 niscences of that visit he said about New York, "G — d — ! too 



