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ed to his remark that a very strong Innuit could just lift it, and 

 there were very few who were able to do so. This piece of metal' 

 was, as he explained, on the southwest side of Oopungnewing Isl- 

 and, just above high-water mark. He had seen it six years be- 

 fore, but not since. The metal was "soft" and "smooth," not 

 "hard" like the pieces I had before me. 



Ebierbing, visiting me that day in our little after-cabin, was 

 conversing with me, and speaking of his sickness and recovery — 

 of the critical state in which his nuliana lay for several days suc- 

 ceeding the birth of their child — of the loss of his very valuable 

 seal and sledge dog " Smile," and another of his dogs. He said 

 farther, " We thankful that still live and able to work. Lose our 

 dogs ; sick and unable to go tuktooicg ; no tuktoo skins for win- 

 ter ; never mind ; we alive and together ; got fine boy, and are 

 happy." I thought this was indeed akin to Christian philosophy, 

 deserving respect and admiration. 



Annawa and his wife Nood-loo-yong visited me on the morning 

 of September 30th, and I showed them the relics I had obtained. 

 They at once recognized them as coming from the places I had 

 examined. These people had spent most of their days round the 

 waters of Frobisher Bay, and especially on the islands Oopungne- 

 wing and Mountelik. The portion of brick which I had found 

 the previous winter, when transferring my things from one sledge 

 to the other, opposite Mountelik, was unknown to them in so 

 large a form; but they had often seen smaller pieces, and also 

 coal, in each of the places where I had discovered it. They had 

 likewise found " heavy stone," such as I showed them at Kus-se- 

 gear-ark-ju-a, a cape half a mile N.N.W. of Kodlunarn. 



I asked them where these things came from, and the reply was, 

 " Kodlunas brought them." I immediately said, " Did you see 

 those kodlunas ?" Their answer, with eyes wide open and coun- 

 tenances expressing surprise, was, u Ar-gi! ar-gi/" meaning No! 

 no ! 



"How, then," said I, "do you know that kodlunas brought 

 them?" 



Their response was, "All the old Innuits said so. The first In- 

 nuits who saw the white men were all dead, many, a great many 

 years ago." 



The more I searched into this subject the more I found it to be 

 well known, as a traditionary fact, that white men — kodlunas — 

 once lived on the island then and since called by the Innuits Kod- 



