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1861 Sat. Sept 28

with this child of the North, I told her that I had stopped at Ni-oun-te-lik & places about there & found all that her grand-mother the venerable Innuit woman with whom (with the assistance of Tuk-oo-li-too) I communicated relative to the White men who had once visited there, told us: to be [[underlined]] just as she said [[/underlined]] - that I had found, even, some of the [[underlined]] "heavy stones" [[/underlined]] that the old woman told us about.  I told her I found Coal Wood, Lime Cement, pieces of Brick, Iron, ruins of Stone Houses & trenches dug in the rocks.  Tuk-oo-li-too was very glad to hear this for she knew that I longed to find out all about it.  She said: 'You beat all the White Men in finding these things & learning all about the 5 White men that built the Ship at Kod-lu-nar'.  As I departed T. said: 'I was so glad when I 

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1861 Sat Sept 28

heard last night that you had got back saftely that I could not sleep - I laid thinking of it all the night long - I feel very happy now.  My winga thought you was lost too - & now he is happy also!  I told T. she must come over to the vessel some day & spend the whole of it with me bringing along the "cherub" to give us music.  She promised to do so.
Old Artark-pa-ru, the decripid Innuit whom we met out in a Ki-a above Ming-u-tum the day of leaving said place (5th Enc) came aboard this P.M.
With the assistance of Koo-jes-se I conversed with him.  I showed him (Ar-tark-pa-ru) the pieces of iron (the large ones) I got at Tik-Koon & Kod-lu-narn.  He (A.) said in answer to the question if he had ever seen them before?  That he had not - but had seen one