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Point Williams, southwest coast of Victoria Tsland on Dolphin and Union Strait The sea 

 cliffs are about 125 feet high here, and hundreds of short-billed gulls (Larus brachyrhynchus) with a 

 few glaucous gulls (Larus hyperboreus) were nesting among little niches and ledges in the face of the 

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Whaleboat sailing up the eastern branch of the Mackenzie delta. The delta is more than a 

 hundred miles wide and has thousands of islands with a labyrinth of intersecting channels. One 

 of our whaleboats navigated three times through parts of the delta and along much of the north 

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Kittigaryuit, on the eastern side of the Mackenzie delta, opposite the southeastern side of Richard 

 Island. This was formerly the largest settlement of the Mackenzie Eskimo, and the surrounding 

 hills are covered with house ruins and burial heaps. The spring of 1910 was spent in this locality 7 



