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1861 Sept 3 Thurs.

will now pursue further enquiries of him & if possible engage him as boat-steerer tho' he a cripple on the trip I purpose to make [[underlined]] right away [[/underlined]] to "Countess of Warwick's Sound", - but I proceede to finish the evidence began by finishing the sentence), respect [[underlined]] to the said inverted Kettle. [[/underlined]]  Yet, it was not large, but [[underlined]] very heavy. [[/underlined]]  Artarkparu it will be recollected said it was [[underlined]] soft [[/underlined]] & [[underlined]] smooth [[/underlined]] - in both these respects differing from the specimens of [[underlined]] "Heavy Stones" [[/underlined]] (Iron) I showed him, they being covered with deep, irregular indentations from rust - & [[underlined]] very hard. [[/underlined]]  I will now stop & have a talk with Ar-tark-pa-ru.
The interview in Aft Cabin with Artarkpa-ru.
Ar-tark-pa-ru has [[image: drawing]] [[underlined]] here [[/underlined]] [[image: drawing]] made the outlines on a small scale of the [[underlined]] Relic [[/underlined]] he has seen on Oo-pung-ne-wing.  One is a side, or longitudinal view - the other as it appears looking down upon it.  In presence of Capt. B. who assisted me in talking with Artarkparu, I exhibited to him (A.) 2 pieces of metal.  One the Bell-metal relic I obtained in Greenland while at anchorage at Holsteinborg, in the Summer of 1860 - being a fragment of one of the bells that the old Norwegians used in their churches - the other a Copper "Skilling", Danish Coin.

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1861 Oct 3d Thurs

The object was to know of Ar-tar-pa-ru what metal we had about us that represented the metal of wh. the relic consisted that he had seen on Oo-pung-ne-wing.  Capt B. drew forth from his pocket an old piece of lead pipe.  From this he (Capt B.) cut off a chip, showing a bright silver, or white look.  Artarkparu said:  [[underlined]] 'It was not like that' [[/underlined]]  So he said of a polished edge of the Bell fragment - [[underlined]] Vide next on (4th) page [[/underlined]]

Sketch by Artarkparu drawn in Aft Cabin Sept 3d/61 VII-00 AM

[[image:  drawing of group of islands annotated A, B, C]]

(A) Oo-pung-ne-wing
(B) Ni-oun-te-lik
(C) Kod-lu-nar
The relative positions given by it of the Islands (named above) are [[underlined]] quite different from fact [[/underlined]] - but my object is to get at the [[underlined]] precise spot [[/underlined]] where he saw [[underlined]] the relic [[/underlined]] on Oo-pung-ne-wing.
The simple pencil dot (.) near the upper part of the sketch representing Oo-pung-ne-wing is where he saw it - the Southern part of the Island near where I found Annawa & other Innuits last winter.