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292 a second—Sharkey and his Jennie, young "Captain," "Bone Squash," and two Innuit children—a girl and a boy. We left Cape True at 9.45 on the morning of July 13th, and at 3  reached a small island near Oopungnewing, named by me Ookijoxy Ninoo; thence, after a short stop, we went on to Oopungnewing. My purpose in visiting this island was to hunt for the "anvil," which, as I have already stated, had been thrown from the south end into the water. It was just after the full moon, and therefore the tides were rising and falling to their extreme limits, near thirty feet; at low water a wide shore was left perfectly exposed, and

on Kodlunarn, or White Man's Island, gathering Frobisher Relics, July 14-17, 1862.

nothing could have escaped my eye. I sought carefully and with anxiety for the relic I so much desired to obtain, but in vain; it was not there. It was clear that the "thick-ribbed ice" had embraced it, as it evidently had every loose stone and heavy rock in that locality, and had carried it away from the land in its grasp.