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1861 Sept. 30 Mon.

This P.M. went over with Ebierbing & a boat load of Innuits to the Innuit village (for Indeed, such it now is) to make a call on his (E's) noolooana.  Found Tuk-oo-li-too quite well & the same of the dusky "darling".  Spent 1/2 hour pleasantly there & returned.  Carried over to T. plate of Baked Beans & complement of Sea-bread.  Ebierbing is now wholly employed in the service of the "George Henry", consequently gets no time for Sealing or acquiring anything in way of provision for himself & family.  Much of the conversation while at Ebierbing's was upon the point of my discoveries of the relics of Kod-lu-nars up Frobisher Bay.
Tuk-oo-li-too said that all the old Innuits, she found, were acquainted with the facts as handed down by the Innuits long since dead that white men (Kod-lu-nars) once lived on the Island called by Innuits, [[underlined]] then [[/underlined]] - since, "Kod-lu-nar" & that they, the Kod-lu-nars

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1861 Sept. 30th Mon

built a ship there - launched it & started away for their Homes but before they got out of the Bay hands & feet got frozen - & finally were frozen to death.
Ebierbing uniformly tells me whenever I ask him that "he recollects distinctly of hearing his father tell that Kod-lu-narns once lived on an an Island called Kod-lu-narn & built a ship there - that Kod-lu-narns had brought brick coal & "heavy stone" & left there on Ni-oun-te-lik & places about there - that his father did not see them but that the first Innuits who saw the Kod-lu-nars told other Innuits so - & so it continued down to this day.  Old Innuits tell Young Innuits - & when they get to be old Innuits, [[underlined]] they [[/underlined]] tell it to young Innuits.  When our baby boy gets old enough, we shall tell him all about you (me) & all about those Kod-lu-narns who brought brick, iron & Coal to where you (I) have been & of the Kod-lunars who built a ship on Kod-lu-narn Island.  When he (our boy) gets to be 

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