The Legend of John HornbyBiography of traveller and eccentric. Spent much of his life in the "Barren Ground", Northwest Territories of Canada. |
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George Whalley. Sinnisiak wanted to kill Hornybaena [ Hornby ] in the summertime . Sinnisiak and Kosuktuk went to Bear Lake with Hornybaena . Hornybaena dropped a sealskin line and Sinnisiak picked it up and wanted to keep it ...
George Whalley. Sinnisiak wanted to kill Hornybaena [ Hornby ] in the summertime . Sinnisiak and Kosuktuk went to Bear Lake with Hornybaena . Hornybaena dropped a sealskin line and Sinnisiak picked it up and wanted to keep it ...
Page 122
... Sinnisiak and Uluksuk , on the pretext of ' going to help some people coming from Bear Lake ' came up with the priests they had travelled only ten miles . ' I hardly think the Esquimaux would kill them , ' Hornby had written to Douglas ...
... Sinnisiak and Uluksuk , on the pretext of ' going to help some people coming from Bear Lake ' came up with the priests they had travelled only ten miles . ' I hardly think the Esquimaux would kill them , ' Hornby had written to Douglas ...
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... Sinnisiak and Uluksuk are the most graphic and eloquent . Sinnisiak , ' the principal murderer ' . Inspector LaNauze found him on Victoria Land on 14 May 1916 in a village of skins of about forty people . Sinnisiak was sitting in his ...
... Sinnisiak and Uluksuk are the most graphic and eloquent . Sinnisiak , ' the principal murderer ' . Inspector LaNauze found him on Victoria Land on 14 May 1916 in a village of skins of about forty people . Sinnisiak was sitting in his ...
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