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Island & return.  They cheerfully acquiesced in my wishes.  The climbing the steep bank, though a feat not easily accomplished, yet, was soon performed by Koo-ou-le-arny & myself.  When up, we directed our steps along a narrow, smooth, grassy, slightly inclined plain hemmed in by rough old rocks.  Thence we turned to the left mounting the rocks leading to the highest part of the Island.  We kept our eyes fixed on the ground over wh. we made our foot-steps anxiously searching for fragments of brick wh. I thought must be somewhere to be found on Ni-oun-te-lik.  I had understood Koo-ou-le-arny to say that she had seen brick on this Island, therefore, every few minutes I said to her: [[underlined]] 'Nou tima brick?' [[/underlined]] (where is brick?)  To make her understand [[underlined]] 'brick', [[/underlined]] I took up a small stone spotted over with a peculiar red moss calling her attention to the  [[underlined]] red, [[/underlined]] & then, taking off her head ornament, [[underlined]] "Kan-oong" [[/underlined]] (a rounded polished piece of brass in the form of a semi-circle fitted to & worn on the head by the Innuit ladies as an adornment) I made motions as if polishing it, for I knew from information I had gained from time to time that Innuits had procured pieces of brick somewhere [[underlined]] on or in [[/underlined]] the neighborhood of the Island on wh. we were, & used them specially for brightening their ornaments to wit: hair-rings ([[space]]) finger rings ([[space]]) & said Kar-oongs.
Koo-ou-le-arny knew by my description what I desired to find but did not seem to recollect where she had seen brick though from her expressions & conduct, I was satisfied she had seen [[underlined]] mik-e-oo-hoo-leo [[/underlined]] (small) pieces somewhere in the vicinity.  Gaining the top of the Island, we made search there for

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relics but could find none.  I looked specially for some signs of a stone monument wh. I conceived Frobisher might in his day (if he visited this Island) have erected here, it being the highest point of the whole Island.  But none whatever could I find.  Thence we directed our way down on the West side of the Island to a small, grassy slope, not far from the termination of the Island.  Here we made careful search but without finding any thing that I wished.  Thence we commenced to make a circuit of the Island, moving along as near the coast as the Bluff rocks would permit, keeping the main Island at our right - that is, continuing N.W., then around to the N. thence N.E. & E.  At the N.W. end of the Island, found abundance of evidence that Innuits had made Ni-oun-te-lik a stopping place.  There we saw the used circles of stones - (always to be seen where Innuits have had their Tupiks (summer Tents) - Seal, Walrus, took-too, (rein-deer) Meituk (Duck) & various other bones in abundance.  Some moss aged & some nearly fresh - of not more than 2 or 3 years exposure.  Here we found also pieces of wood, some with the ends charred, - small pieces of Took-too skins - & one article indicative of being a relic of Civilization - a piece of a calico dress!