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in the late summer and early autumn of 1915, but about the middle 

 of November they began to come up from the Coppermine River region, 

 and from the south coast of Victoria Island, until about 125 were living 

 in a snow-house village on the beach near the station. Most of them 

 stayed around for about three weeks, living principally on caribou 

 meat, while their women were engaged in making new caribou-skin 

 garments for the winter. All this work had to be done on land, as 

 the natives of this region have taboos which forbid them dressing cari- 

 bou-skins or making new caribou-skin garments while living on the 

 ice. This was a happy part of the year for them, and there was sing- 

 ing and dancing most of the time. In the early part of December, 

 when their new winter clothing was completed, and their stocks of 

 frozen meat, dried meat, and fish began to run low, they all moved out 

 to the vicinity of Liston and Sutton Islands, in the middle of Dolphin 

 and Union Strait, about 16 miles north of Bernard Harbor. The 

 people build snow-houses on the ice there, and live practically exclu- 

 sively on seals for the rest of the winter. 



A good collection of mammals and birds was made around Bernard 

 Harbor this year and Jenness brought back a few zoological specimens 

 from Victoria Island. 



January and February, 1916, were spent by the geological and topo- 

 graphical men mostly in working up their field notes and preparing 

 for the spring work. Jenness spent most of the winter at the large 

 Eskimo sealing village near the Okallit (Liston and Sutton) Islands, 

 pursuing his ethnological studies. I made a trip to the first timber on 

 the Coppermine River with some of the hunters in January and Feb- 

 ruary, and a quantity of caribou meat was brovight back to replenish 

 the house supply, as well as a few zoological specimens. Caribou were 

 found to be fairly plentiful down to the coast near the mouth of the 

 Coppermine River, and we also saw one small herd south of Cape Lam- 

 bert. Caribou are not often seen near the coast of Dolphin and Union 

 Strait in winter. The natives in this region spend the winter sealing 

 through the ice, and at the present time do not molest the caribou 

 from November until April. 



I returned to Bernard Harbor from the Coppermine River trip on 

 February 27, having been gone a little over a month. It had been 

 arranged that Chipman should start on March 1 to make a survey of 

 Croker River before starting the eastern work. This seems to be the 

 largest river between Darnley Bay and Coronation Gulf, and nothing 

 but its mouth had been put on the charts previously. I decided that I 

 would accompany Chipman on this trip, which was of interest not only 

 as giving an important geological section into the heart of the country, 

 but might also throw more light on animal distribution, particularly 

 of the ovibos. Owing to stormy weather we did not get away from 

 Bernard Harbor until March 6, and reached the mouth of Croker River 

 on March 15. Near Clifton Point we spent a night at "Camp Neces- 



