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ARCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITION. 



The sketch which was drawn by Ookgooalloo extended from 

 above Fox's Farthest down to King's Cape, and thence along the 

 north shore of Hudson's Strait to North Bay, where the upper 

 Savage Islands are situated. " North Bluff" is adjoining that 

 bay, and is called by Innuits Ki-uh-tuk-ju-a, and King's Cape, Noo- 

 ooh-ju-a. When the Sekoselar party left home in the previous 

 year, 1860, they traveled, as Innuits generally do, very slow. In 

 the fall they arrived at the head waters of Frobisher Inlet, and 

 Ookgooalloo marked upon his sketch the track they pursued 

 from Sekoselar to the place where they commenced the land route 

 across the isthmus. The head waters of Frobisher Bay they call- 

 ed See-see-ark -ju-a, and into it ran, according to his account (which 

 I afterward found true), a river of fresh water, sometimes very 

 large, and containing salmon in abundance. During the winter 

 of 1860-1 this party of natives made their way down the bay till 

 they came across " Sampson" and his people, at the place which I 

 had visited a short time previous. 



Ookgooalloo then told me "that ships did not come in sight at 

 Sekoselar, nor at Noo-ook-ju-a, but his father, Koo-ook-jum, had 

 said that many years ago two ships came close to Noo-ook-ju-a 

 (King's Cape) and Sekoselar, and that he, Koo-ook-jum, with 

 many other Innuits, went out to the ships in kias and oomiens, 

 and went on board." 



Now these two ships could be no other than Parry's, in his ex- 

 pedition of 1821-23, and consequently it was full forty years since 

 the occurrence now mentioned took place. Parry's account is as 

 follows : 



"July 31st, 1821. Latitude 64° 01', longitude 75° 49' west. In 

 the afternoon Captain Lyon discovered and made the signal for an 

 Esquimaux oomiak coming off from shore under sail, accompa- 

 nied by eight canoes. We tacked to meet them, and lay to half 

 an hour for the purpose of adding to our stock of oil. In this 

 boat were sixteen persons, of which number two only were men, 

 an old and a young one, and the rest women and children. In 

 the features, dress, and implements of these people we saw noth- 

 ing different from those of the Esquimaux last described (those 

 of the Savage Islands), but they were better behaved than the oth- 

 ers, with whom our ships (meaning the Hudson Bay Company's 

 ships) have had more frequent intercourse." 



Again, under date of August 1st, Parry continues : 



" We beat to the westward, between Nottingham Island and 



