Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-10-07
The Lost Arctic Explorers.

"a ASikSi ~ 4NCN 4 vi dSydH gives
the particulars of Lieutenant ScHwAT-
KA's search in the Arctic regions for news
of the crews OF Sir JOHN FRANKLIN's
vessels The following extracts indicate
what kind of information was obtained:
From Ikinnelikpatolok, the old COX.
joolik, we learned AL the interview that he
only once before saw white men alive.
This was when he was little boy. He
is now about sixty. i've or seventy. He
was fishing on Backs River when they
came along in and shook hands with
him. There were ten men. The leader
was called 'Tos. ard .e-roak,' which Joe
says from the sound he thinks means
Lieutenant Black. The next white man
he saw was dead in q bunk of big ship
which WAS frozen in the ice near an island
about five miles due west Of Grant Point,
on Adelaide Peninsula. They had to
walk out about three miles on smooth ice
TO reach the ship. He said that his son,
who was present, a man about thirty five
years old, was then about like q chlld he
pointed out that is probably seven or
eight years old. About tins time he saw
tue tracks OF white men on the main land.
When he first saw them there were four
and after ward only three. This WAS when
the spring SHOWS were falling When his
people saw the ship SO long without any
one around they used to go on board aud
steal pieces of wood and iron. They did
not know how TO get inside by the doors
and cut a hole in the side of the ship on
level with the ice, 80 that when the ice
broke up during the following Summer
the ship filed and sunk. No tracks were
seen ia the salt water ice or en- the ship,
which also was cOvere1 with snow, but
they saw scrapings ana sweepings along
side, which seemed to have been brushed
oil by people who had been living on
board. They found some red cans of fresh
meat, with plenty OF what looked like tai
low mixed with it. A great many had
been opened and four were still unopen-
ed. They saw no bresd. They found
plenty OF knives, forks, spoons, pans,
cups and plates on board, and sferward
found few sucn things on shore alter
the vessel had gone down. They also
saw books on board, and lett them there.
They only took knives, forks, spoons and
pans; the other things they had no use
tor, lie never saw or heard OF the white
mems cairn on Adelaide Peninsula.
"Ahlangyah, a Netchilik, about fifty.
five years OF age, pointed out the eastern
coast OF Washington Bay as the spot
where she, with her husband and two
other men, with their wives, had seen ten
white men dragglug sledge with boat
on IL, many years ago. There was an
other lnnuit with them who did not 70
near the white men. The sledge WAS on
the ice, and wide crack separated them
from the white men at the interview.
The women went on shore, and the men
awaited the white people at the crack
OF the ice. Five OF the white men put up
a tent on the shore, and five remained
with The boat on the ice. The Innuits
put up tent together not far from the
white men, and they stayed together here
five days. During this time the Innuits
killed number OF seals on the ice and
gave them to the white men. They gave
her husband chopping knife. He was
the one VINO had the most intercourse
with the white crew. The knife is now
lost or broken and worn out. She has
not seen 1t for long time. AT the end
of five days they all started tor Adelaide
Peninsula fearing that the ice, which
was very rotten, might not lei them cross,
They started al night because then, the
sun being low, the ice would be q little
frozen The white men followed, drag
cling their heavy sledge and boat, and
could not cross the rotten Ice as fast as
the lnnuits, VINO halted and waited for
them at Glsdman's P0ini The Innuits
could not cross TO the mainland; the ice
WAS TOO rotten, and they remained in
King Williams Land all summer
They never saw the white men again,
though they waited at Gladman Point
fishing in the neighborlng lakes, going
back and forth between the shore and
lakes nearly all summer, and then went to
the eastern snore, near Matty Island,
Some of the white men were very thin,
and their mouths were very dry and hard
and black, They had no fur clothing on.
When asked If she remembered what
names any OF the white men were called
she said one of them WAS called 'Agloccar'
and another 'roolooah.' The latter
seemed to be the chief, and it was he who
gave the chopping sDfe 10 her husband,
(Agloccsr and ToOlOoau are both common
h sqntmauX names, and II Is probable that
the names she heard the white men called
resem oled these In sound, and thus i'm
pressed themselves upon her mind. An
other one was called 'DOk.to * (D0ctJrJ
'TOolOoah' WAS little older than the 9th
ers, and had large black beard, mixed
with gray, He WAS bigger than any OF
the otners-'a big, broad man 'Agluoc-
car was smaller, and had brown beard
about tour or five inches below his chin
(mOtiOniug with her hand) 'DOk-tok
was q short m4n with big stomach and
red beard, about the same length as 'Ag-
locCsr's' All three wore spectacles, not
snow goggles, but IS the interpreters said,
all the same seko Gce).
"Tne following spring when there was
little snow ON the ground, she saw q tent