In 1854, eleven fragments of pocket watches of the still missing Franklin expedition came back to England. On October 23rd, The Times published a report of Dr. John Rae about the ill-fated expedition. In it, he not only revealed details about the death of the men, but also mentioned items that he brought back. Part of these items were eleven pocket watch cases, that are now in the collection of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. It is these pocket watch fragments that particularly caught my interest. Charles Frances Hall, in search of the fate of Sir John Franklin and his men, met on his second expedition some of the same Inuit family members as Dr. Charles Rae. Thanks to Too-koo-li-too, his Inuit translator, he was able to write down the Testimony of Ook-bar-loo, a woman who knew a lot about the watches - or as Too-koo-li-too put it, about the "witches". The full testimony is at the end of this blogpost. Interestingly, Ook-bar-loo told them how and where she had s