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winga (husband) & more than that - she did not like him.
It seems that Oo-Kood-lear was thus weeping on account of anticipating that her fate would soon be decided in favor of E-tu, or what would have amounted to same thing that she should go with Ugarny's party to Budington Bay.
How happy was this Innuit girl when it was told to her that she was not to go or be the noobiana of E-tu.
Ebierbing says that Oo-Kood-lear is too young & too good a girl for E-tu.  Says that E-tu is not an energetic sealer or hunter - that he is lazy - more that - his body is covered all over with snow white spots - & black spots just like a Kou-oo-lik (a large spotted seal)!  By this I learned that E-tu was thus when born - thus marked  by the mother when
From this Ebierbing went on & told me a thrilling incident:  I here give it 

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E-tu's father was a very bad man.  While E-tu was a small boy his father took him on to his Ki-a (man boat) & took him E-tu to an Island near Kik-Hik-tuk-ju - (an Island E. of the Bay I have named Budington Bay) & there left him without anything whatever to eat.  The island was like all others here destitute of all apparent subsistence.  The act was a horid one though the parent seemed to have been prompted to thus get rid of what he supposed as being curse in his family - a spotted child.  Strange as it may seem, E-tu lived through the Summer on that Island catching partridges with his hands, an act that no Innuit ever done before or since except E-tu.  On these he lived till beginning of Winter when one day a number of Innuits visited the Island & to their astonishment saw this young child standing upon a distant rock viewing them.  They hastened