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Show j AN ARC f C VURDEH. i Th SIur.lrBr ll.tiic I't. lir Hi i"eli and j H t.it i. H. ti i. .. i.f Ifuftih. I i Sail Kra.i- ic Citmi r e. I Ni-fsi.; i'i.. ;,;:,! r of an unknown : wli.te ma it I r i oa I : A!,:si,au coast ; and of thu bur ii.. piiii'shno lit ol las j slayer has b.-.-ri taoiii ht to tios city by i lb'. 11. X. Kiel uiil', surf-on of the For-i For-i cui irie iiVi-r iioiiinliiry survey yarty. " i.en the 1 1." 1 , 1 1 ii ii returned to j St. Mtenacis last vv mlcr," Mtid Dr. I Kicru'il, "1 went Hp a'oir tl.o coast to I trade inr cm i. is and to hunt seals. "When 1 iv as about Ion miles south of I'oint Hope, or lui) niin 3 or so trout St. Micaaels, I im t h parly of natives Irom i'oint Hope. Ainoiiti them was : old Isaac, Captain Ili-alyS ititurpreier. He told me tn.it insl I'l-fora tliey left tho point me white men Irom a wltal-in wltal-in Vessel came ashore an. I camped miionj thu Indians, a branch of the Malamoots. One of them becaim. loo I friendly with t:ie wile cl an In ban hunter, and he ordered I lie wliile man out of tint biirali.tra. '1 ho latter left some hours .litem ar I, and thu imiian followed ti I in out, an, I (.hot him lhrout;h the head with a raie, killinit him out-rij;hl. out-rij;hl. "The v ciiL'i'aaeo of thu dead man's four comrades, as old Isaac describe.! it, Was lieiiil.ii. '1 h-v il.d not lial e. to vcntui'i) itiln tan ui,,i.:hled but, win re tho murderer was wai; nitr, l':lle in hand, but tin.iiiy tacy gul some s piaws lo j,ra inand own power him. Tlien they et up three 'poles in front of their own hut and liuiii; tlie nair lercr up by the. heels. That was in tin; morning, and all day as tney passed in and out each of the wiialeis sli'irk the Indian in the I face with ti.g clei.c'ii d list. "Hy nu'ht llf Indian's head and face were raw ami swollen, and lie was blooding from no.-c, month and ears. At length, weary no; of their pastiini.'. the w haler's look out tin ir rillcs a id made a target of ths linirderer's be al. lit i ti x tit short rititfe, u in il uolhint; but a licadle-s Iruitk hunti-froin the po cs. "I'ncn they noi.l a rude callows on the top of tit" lad, ait's hill, and to it B'.'iiit; tho body ol the dead murderer. T Indians were nil ra'raid lo interiere w n the uhilt! men, nd when md Isaac lcf, I'oint Hope th" whalers were yet there and thu ho ly still tivuu on lite roof of t lie hut. Inelntlatns aUo said that a vessel had anchored near I'oint Hope and (here was some kind of trouble abonr I. Thn captain took somo of the sailoro who had been disob, dl'iit, and, (.trip piny; them, ducksd lin ni repeatedly in the icy waters ofthe Arctic. Afterward After-ward be put litem in boat and S 'lit them ashore, givjng-tich of them a tittle tit-tle 11 uir and meat, and ordering them, s tho Indians put it, 'no come back.' "Mow, it may have been thai the marooned ma-rooned sailors iver the live men who Were in the I'oint Hope ailair. 1 tri al to liud out from I-aau and the others whom I met, but they did not seem to know, or, if they did know, they could not make mo understand. "I tried ai.ni to bud out the names of the two vessel mentioned, or to got some dcucriptiun of them or their com-inamlers, com-inamlers, but it was no u ,e. All that they could Si.iy about the v.-hitu man who was killed was that he was a white man and a sudor. All the-a things happened about December last." |