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spicuous, we must have seen it when we slowly drifted along 

 that coast. 1 



These people usually winter in snow-huts at Green Point, 

 a mile or two within the northern entrance of Pond's Bay. 

 They hunt the seal and narwhal, but when the sea becomes 

 too open they retire to Kaparoktolik \ and when the remain- 

 ing ice breaks up — usually about the middle of August — a 

 further migration takes place across the inlet to the S.W., 

 where reindeer abound, and large salmon are numerous in 

 the rivers. Every winter they communicate with the Igloolik 

 people. Two winters ago (1856-7) some people who live far 

 beyond Igloolik, in a country called A-ka-nee (probably the 

 Ak-koo-lee of Parry), brought from there the information of 

 white people having come in two boats, and passed a winter 

 in snow-huts at a place called by the following names : — 

 A-mee-lee-oke, A-wee-lik, Net-tee-lik. 



Our friends pointed to our whale-boat, and said the boats 

 of the white people were like it, but larger. These whites 

 had tents inside their snow huts ; they killed and ate rein- 

 deer and narwhal, and smoked pipes ; they bought dresses 

 from the natives ; none died ; in summer they all went away, 

 taking with them two natives, a father and his son. We 

 could not ascertain the name of the white chief, nor the 

 interval of time since they wintered amongst the Esquimaux, 

 as our friends could not recollect these particulars. 2 



The name of the locality, A-wee-lik (spelt as written down 

 at the moment), may be considered identical with " Ay-wee- 

 lik," the name of the land about Repulse Bay in the chart of 

 the Esquimaux woman, Iligliuk (Parry's 'Second Voyage,' 

 p. 197). 



1 The remains of this wreck have since been visited by an English 

 whaler, thus confirming the Esquimaux report. 



2 Dr. Rae wintered at Repulse Bay in stone huts in 1846-7. Again 

 wintered there in snow huts in 1853-4. 



