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(6 1861 Oct 12 Sat - & resumed carving. I think Capt. B. will remember this incident. If he does not, I will simply say he [[underlined]] ought [[/underlined]] to have done so! In 5 minutes Artarkparu completed the representation being in complete correspondence with that of Ugarny's. I then asked A. the same as I asked U.: Kis-sue? - meaning what was that relic at Oo-pung-ne-wing designed & used for? He (A) answered that he did not know. By the by, on my asking A. as above he (A) commenced talking with Ugarny: I instantly raised up & made for the lips of Ugarny pinching them together with my fingers! U. [[underlined]] burst out [[/underlined]] laughing wh. of course I did not strive to restrain. Happily he (U.) took the hint, to wit, that I did not wish him to say one word to Artarkparu till I got through with him (A.) As above, the answer of A was that he did not know what the relic on Oo-pung-ne-wing was for. I asked him how A. came there at Oo-pung-ne-wing? If the [[end page]] [[start page]] (7 Kod-lu-narrs (who brought it in the country (as A had before told me) put it there? He answered: 'Many years ago it was carried from the Island Kod-lu-narr to Oo-pung-ne-wing, [[underlined]] by the Innuits. [[/underlined]] I then asked [[underlined]] how [[/underlined]] the Innuits took it there? If they took in an Oo-[[?mien]] (Woman's Boat)? He replied: That it was taken to Oo-pung-ne-wing over the ice on a Kum-mi-tu - meaning on an Innuit sledge drawn by dogs. This old Innuit then at my request proceeded to show me how the Innuits managed to make [[?trials]] in lifting this heavy Iron. The Innuits making the attempt, 1st [[?carts]] it thus [[image: drawing of a tilted anvil the sides annotated A & B]] stradling it & placing one hand at A & one at B. A fast hold being made lifter proceeds to do his best. Ugarny described the way Innuits took hold of it at the time he saw this relic to be the