96 TEANSACTIONS OF THE 



mint, /. e., the inhabitants of the other side, crossing Hudson Strait 

 from King's Cape to Cape Wolstenhohne. 



The middle region of the north shore of Hudson Strait is inhab- 

 ited by the Akudliarmiut who go deer hunting to the large lake Ag- 

 makdgua, where they meet with the Nugumiut, the inhabitants of 

 the peninsula between Frobisher Bay and Cumberland Sound. The 

 shore of Davis Strait is divided into three parts : — Oko, Akudnirn, 

 and Aggo, /. c, the lee side, the centre, and the weather side. 

 Oko, the land of the Cumberland Sound, is inhabited by the Okomiut 

 who in olden times were divided into the Tellirpingmiut on the 

 west shore of Cumberland Sound ; the Kinguamiut, at the head 

 of it ; the Kignaitmiut on the high Cumberland peninsula, and 

 finally the Saumingmiut on Davis Strait, as far as Exeter Bay 

 and Cape Dier. As the number of the Okomiut has been greatly 

 diminished there scarcely exists any difference between these tribes 

 now. 



The inhabitants of Padli are nearer to the Akudnirmiut than to 

 the Okomiut. The Aggomiut consist of two tribes : The Tudnu- 

 mirmiut of Pond's Bay, and the Tudnunirossirmiut of Admiralty 

 Inlet. Besides there are the Iglulingmiut of Fury and Hecla Strait, 

 with whom we have been made acquainted by Parry and Hall. 



I have visited the different tribes of Cumberland Sound and 

 Davis Strait as far as Akudnirn, and no settlement in this country 

 escaped my notice. As there are quite a number of natives of differ- 

 ent tribes settled among these I was able to gather a good deal of 

 information about all the Eskimos from Sicosuilar to Tudnunirn. 



The most interesting tribe are the Tellirpingmiut, the inhab- 

 itants of the west shore of Cumberland Sound, more particularly 

 speaking, of Nettilling fiord. This is one of the few Eskimo tribes 

 living inland. From former reports we only learned that the Kin- 

 nepatu, the Eskimo of Chesterfield Inlet, on the west shore of 

 Hudson Bay, live nearly all the year round on deer and musk oxen, 

 which they hunt on the plains between Back River and Chesterfield 

 Inlet, only coming down to the seaside during the winter. 



At the present time the Tellirpingmiut have the same custom. 

 In the month of May they leave their winter settlement and travel 

 with their dogs and sledges inland to the large lake Nettilling, 

 (Lake Kennedy, of the old charts) and get to the place of their 

 settlement, Tikerakdjuak, on the south shore of the lake, long 

 before the ice breaks up. They take with them one or more bags 

 of blubber for their lamps; but sometimes they do not even carry 



