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some few more recent houses , which are said to be known 

 to the Polar Eskimos as having been built by Kridlarssuark 

 and ills party. 



Any group of Ponds Inlet Eskimos that passed over to 

 North Devon simply for the sake of hunting , would certainly 

 not be enticed northwards along the east coast of Ellesmere 

 Land, but would go westwards along the coasts of Jones Sound 

 over to the west side of North Devon and Ellesmere Land, 

 where plenty of musk-ox are to be found; an example of this 

 was obtained by Boas ^ from an Eskimo woman, whom he met 

 at Cape Kater. She had been with an Eskimo band, which had 

 passed over the ice-covered North Devon on sledges and on to 

 the south-west part of Ellesmere Land, which is called the 

 "Umingman Nuna" or the musk-ox land, where it is said they 

 even found some natives. For the rest, there is still the 

 belief among the Ponds Inlet Eskimos, that a musk-ox hunting 

 Eskimo tribe lives up in these regions, a belief, however, 

 that later expeditions have shown to be incorrect for the 

 present time. 



Further, it is known that the Ponds Inlet Eskimos some- 

 times journey to North Somerset to hunt the musk-ox, and that 

 this journey may then extend over the Barrow Strait to the 

 south-west coast of North Devon ^. This last direction re- 

 presents, I think, an old and original route for the expansion 

 of the Eskimos. From North Somerset it goes straight north 

 to the west coast of North Devon , right across the north- 

 westernmost part of this island and further north along the 

 west coast of Ellesmere Land as far as Bay Fjord, where one 

 route goes eastwards overland to Buchanan Bay and Smith Sound, 

 whilst another continues northwards up to Lake Hazen in the 

 interior. The part of the route which is connected with Elles- 



1 Baffin Land. Peteimann's Mitteilungen. Ergänzungsband. 1884, p. 40. 

 - A. P. Low. 1. с p. 57 et seq. 



