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a rule, Nerkey, which lies west of Robertson Bay; further, 

 Kràna (Engl. Karnali), which is situated on the north side of 

 Inglefield Gulf between Mc Cormick Bay and Bowdoin Bay; 

 Narsark (Engl. Narksami), which lies on the south side of 

 Inglefield Gulf a little to the east of the mouth of Olriks Fjord 

 and which owing to its position is like a centre for the dwellers 

 on the Gulf; Itivdierk (Engl. Ittiblu) on the south side of the 

 month of Olriks Fjord; INetschilivik (Engl. INetchiolumy) on 

 Barden Bay; Kiatark (Engl. Keaté or Kieti) on the south coast 

 of Northumberland Island; llmanark (Engl. North Omenak or 

 Oomunui), which receives its name from a neighbouring, table- 

 shaped mountain on the north side of North Star Bay and has 

 a similar importance for Wolstenholm Sound as Narsark for 

 Inglefield Gulf; Agpat (Engl. Akpan) on the south-west side of 

 Saunders Island; as also the small settlement Igfissork (Engl, 

 Ipsuischo, Ipsueshow), which lies on the small Parker Snow 

 Bay about halfway between Cape AlhoU and Cape York. It 

 was at Umanark that the new Danish Mission Station was set 

 up in 1909. 



The snow-houses are not actually used at any definite 

 jieriod of the year, but only as lodges whilst hunting or on 

 journeys during the winter. These snow-houses, which require 

 suitable, hard, frozen snow, are built by the Eskimos in the 

 course of a very short time, the men with their long snow- 

 knives cutting blocks of snow from the drifts and placing them 

 in a spiral-line above one another, until the whole becomes an 

 arched dome. Towards May, when the snow is less suited for 

 building purposes and the summer tent is already in order, a 

 combination of snow-house and tent is set up on the journeys, 

 a low snow-wail being first built and the tent in a folded con- 

 dition is then laid on the top to serve as roof. Sometimes 

 also, a mere wall is built for shelter or even this is quite 

 omitted and the Eskimos simply lie down and sleep on the 

 snow. Further, natural caves or overarching shelters in the 



