In 1879, the Cincinnati publisher Charles Francis Hall told the interested reader of his monography, Narrative of the Second Arctic Expedition Made by Charles F. Hall, a most dramatic story. He heard it while searching for the third Franklin expedition in the North of the Canadian Arctic, today called Nunavut. With his Inuk translator, Taqulittuq, he interviewed Ook-bar-loo, an Aivilingmiut woman, who told him the story of Ad-lark and how she found a pocket watch: "The body of this man was lying on one side, and was half imbedded in solid ice from head to feet. The way the chain was about the neck and running down one side of the body indicated that the watch was beneath it; and therefore, to get at the watch, she found a difficult and disagreeable task before her.[...] She was very careful not to touch any part of the body while pounding with the sharp stone. At last, after having pounded away the ice from around and under the body, her husband helped her to lift it out of its ic