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ARCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITION. 



leaf as Koo-ou-le-arng's (Suzhi's) sketch. This has some corre- 

 spondence to the delineation of the one Artarkparu made some 

 days since. Later : 



"This minute, 10 15 A.M., have found out just what this relic 

 is. It is an anvil / such as were made in former times, without 

 a horn. 



" To get at this, I got Ugarng to cut out with his knife its rep- 

 resentation in wood. When he finished it I held it out, asking 

 '-Kis-suV — that is, What was the heavy iron at Oopungnewing 

 formerly used for ? His answer was an intelligible one, and one 

 that determines the nature of this important relic beyond all question. 

 Before I give it, I will say that this Innuit has been to the States 

 (vide page 102). While there he desired to and did visit various 

 manufacturing establishments, being himself naturally of a me- 

 chanical turn of mind. I will now give his answer on stating 

 that, holding the index finger of his left hand on the little carved 

 block as I held it up, with his other hand angled into fist and 

 raised above finger to represent hammer, he said, ' All the same as 

 blacksmith. 1 This expression, in connection with his pertinent 

 symbolizing, settles the matter satisfactorily to my mind that this 

 relic of Frobisher on Oopungnewing is an anvil." 



UGARNG' S WOOD MODEL OF THE IEON EELIC. AKTAEKPABU'S WOOD MODEL OF THE IEON EELIO. 



Another wood model,* of great similarity to the above two, was 

 executed on the 15th of October by Annawa. 



When Ugarng saw the relic, or " heavy stone," it was " red with 

 rust ;" and Artarkparu informed me that it had been carried to 

 Oopungnewing from Kodlunarn many years ago by Innuits on a 

 sledge. Annawa, in speaking of it, said "it was something that 

 did not grow there," and each one confirmed the others' testi- 

 mony, though examined apart and at different times. Suzhi also 



* This model I sent to the English government with many of the Frobisher relics 

 which I discovered and obtained in the Countess of Warwick's Sound. 



