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1861 May 11 Sat.
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Vol IV
Vol. V

The communication of the old lady relative to the ^[[tradition of]] taking away "[[underlined]] two Innuit women [[/underlined]]" approximates to written history - so nearly as this: On the first voyage Frobisher took captive one of the natives he met with on entering the strait he called Frobisher's & [[took?]] him home to Eng. where in the same year said Captive "died of a cold taken at Sea". 
In the 2nd voyage, Frobisher landed on Hall's greater Island wh. is the extreme ^[[of]] the South Eastern trend of Islands commencing at Bear Sound. Here he took captive another of the Innuits & soon after stood over to the southern shore of what History ^[[History says]] calls Frobisher [[underlined]] Strait. [[/underlined]] In a place F. called "Yorke Sound": In endeavoring to seize a party of [[strikethrough]] 5 or 6 [[/strikethrough]] natives a skirmish ensued in wh. 5 or 6 of the savages (?) were unfortunately put to death & [[underlined]] two women seized [[/underlined]] "whereof the one being old & ugly, our men thought she had been a devil or some witch & therefore let her go"

In the above quotation, it will be especially noticed that History [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined]] "Written [[/underlined]] history - tells us that 5 or 6 Innuits were put to death by Frobishers party. Oral History, as treasured up by the Innuits & handed down to the present, tells me to-day "[[underlined]] Five [[/underlined]] INNUITS were killed by the Kod-lu-na' (the white people.)

The old lady, O-Ku-ju-a-ju-ri-no, relates that these were killed on this side of

     "Tin-nu-jok-ping goo-se-ong" (Frobisher Bay) that the [[underlined]] two women [[/underlined]] were taken from the other side - King Nine (Meta Incognita) side of said Bay. How well this

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traditionary matter I have gathered up agrees with written history, let the civilized world decide.
As for me, I must confide my astonishment at ^[[the]] recital of the old woman's remembrance of the traditionary matter ^[[told to her when a girl]] hearing upon Frobisher's voyage of over three centuries ago.

Here I was face to face with written & oral History - of facts that transpired [[strikethrough [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] Nine generations ago & agreeing so well that [[strikethrough]] and made me [[/strikethrough]] led ^[[me]] to exclaim: How wonderful. How [[underlined]] strange [[/underlined]] that this has been kept & continued ^[[so long &]] correctly among this strange people!

I must acknowledge that up to the time of this interview with [[strikethrough]] Tin-nu-jok-ping [[/strikethrough]] O-hu-ju-a-ju-ni-no [[underline]] I was skeptical as to the location [[/underlined]] of the Bay or waters in these regions, wh. Frobisher visited 1576-7 & 8.

No [[underlined]] longer have I doubts. [[/underlined]]

Tin-nu-jok-ping goo-se-ong (the Innuit name for the inlet or bay below us) may hence forth be called & Mapped
[[bold]] Frobisher's Bay [[/bold]]

I have said above that I felt skeptical as to [[underlined]] location [[/underlined]] of the Waters in these regions wh. Frobisher visited [[underlined]] up to the interview [[/underlined]] with the [[strikethrough]] old innuit [[/strikethrough]] venerable Innuit O-ku-ju-a-ju-ni-no.

Why this skepticism?

[[underlined]] Soon after [[/underlined]] making anchorage in Rescue Harbor, I discovered to my astonishment that the so called "Frobisher Strait" was not a strait but a deep bay or inlet!

[[vertically on page, right margin and encircled]] For a paper on the subject of "Northumberland Inlet" etc see Geographical journal (in N.Y. Geographical Society [[ed.?]] of 1842 page [[encirlced]] 21 [[/encircled]] part 1st) [[/vertical]]