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[[boxed date]] 1862 June 10 Tues [[/boxed date]] of wood [when she was a girl] on Kod-lu-narn that the Kod-lu-nars brought with them a great many years ago. [[encircled 13]] & [[encircled 14]] The white men who lived on Kod-lu-narn went away in [[underlined]] three [[/underlined]] boats - some died with the cold - the ship was built on Ni-oun-te-lik. [[[underlined]] I give what the old lady related - as related or interpreted to me. [[/underlined]], [[tiny intial "H" withing the terminal bracket]] [of course it requires on to do much sifting in coming to conclusions relating to the Great [[strikethrough]] Fats [[/strikethrough]] Facts at the bottom of the whole matter.] [I continue: [[encircled 14]] Again O. says that her Grandfather lived at the time Eloudjuarng was 'Pe-my-ik' (King or [[?Christ]] of a Great & numerous people) Ee-loud-ju-arng made Innuits kind to the white people who lived on Kod-lu-narn made them kill rabits seal &c for them. [[encircled 15]] White men built stone house on K. but they could not live in it there was so much frost in the stone walls. Innuits made them snow huts. Ee-loud-ju-arng made a song when white men started to go away - Has heard the song - some Innuits can now sing it. [[encircled 16]] & [[encircled 17]] Tells the matter without necessity of other comment. [[encircled 18]] The old lady with tears in her eyes requests me to show the lock of her hair to my children & tell them all about old Oo-ki-jox-y-ni-noo. [[encircled 19]] I was astonished at the declaration of this - Old Pe-ta-to looks as old or older than O. Pe-tat-to's hair mostly all white. By this & other facts I cannot but conclude that O. is 100 years old. [[encircled 20]] Needs no additional words. [[encircled 21]] Just as I left an unfinished line - in orig. notes. [[encircled 22]] [[encircled 23]] [[encircled 24]] [[encircled 25]] Contain important matter. It will be seen that Oo-ki-jox-y-ni-noo makes no mention of any vessel but one up to this. I press the matter now to know if [[end page]] [[start page]] [[boxed date]] 1862 June 10 Tues [[/boxed date]] She cannot recollect whether the Innuits ever saw or heard of any other or others. She thinks - she replies: That a great many years before her Grandfather or her Grandfather's father was born two ships did come into the Bay called by Innuits Tu-nuk-jok-ping-oo-sy-ong that the white men in them went onto the land & made a pile of stones very high & after a while went on up the Bay toward Ag-gown she did not know where they went. [I certainly felt some relief when the old lady brought to her recollection [[underlined[[ facts that she had stated to me last year. that is [[/underlined]] that there was a time when two ships came here one year.] [[tiny initial "H." inside the terminal bracket, below the word "year"]] [I felt furthermore to rejoice at that new evidence of it being Frobisher's Expedition of now 300 years ago for his expeditions here erected monuments of stone.] [[tiny initials "FH" below the word "stone"]] [[encircled 26]] [[encircled 27]] [[encircled 28]] [[encircled 29]] [[encircled 30]] One monument of stone erected by these Kod-lu-nars [[underlined[[ still standing [[/underlined]]! The name of the place on Bay [[in very large, dark, drawn letters]] "KER-NUK-TOO-JOO-arc" [[boxed note in left margin]] This Bay by Twong-wine & Mingutoon [[underlined]] Vide [[/underlined]] 3d page of + [[for Sunday]] June 15th/62 [[/boxed note in left margin]] wh. is about one day's journey above Ming-u-toon From a prolonged conversation about this monument I get the following of the old lady. The Kod-lu-nars in the two ships landed & made or erected the monument. It is not on very high land - the Innuits have always paid great respect to it for it gives them plenty Took-too (rein-deer)! Every year many Innuits go to it - give it powder, caps, balls, young took-too meat &c. In old times the Innuits going there & wishing success in killing many took-too would give it Bows & arrows placing the same on the top or hanging the same from top of it. Give it [[underlined]] plenty [[/underlined]] & an Innuit would kill [[underlined]] plenty [[/underlined]]. This "stone-marker" of Kod-lu-nars great help to Innuits - Always makes took-too plenty there. Every Innuit [[end page]]
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Not sure what page(s) the numbered lines refer to but I know I have read related comments somewhere in Hall's journal.
