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been carried by the Polar sea-ice (Storis) south of Cape Farewell.’ There 
can scarcely be any doubt as to the correctness of the hypothesis here 
expounded by me that the net originated from the east coast (Angmagsalik). 
As regards the use of the net in question in West Greenland I shall further 
draw attention to the peculiar remark made by Joun Davis! “They make 
nets to take their fish of the finne of a whale”. Recently a net of whale- 
bone was found in Disco Bay north of Jacobshavn, regarding which the 
reader is referred to Porsttp*, who has made the net-question a subject 
for further inquiry. 
That other eastern Eskimo, besides the Greenlanders, also have carried 
on net-catching appears to be proved by the fact that Parry® found a net 
of whalebone in 1821 at a deserted settlement in Lyon Inlet. Lastly, it 
may be mentioned that Dopps speaks* of a net of whalebone among the 
Eskimo on the west coast of Hudson Bay between 62° and 65° N. lat. 
The Eskimo of the Melville Peninsula 5. 
In the preceding chapter on the Baffin Land Eskimo it was essentially 
the groups in the south-eastern parts of the large island studied by Boas 
which were taken into consideration. Round about this island, however, 
there appears to be several other, though less important, centres for Eskimo 
settlements. Thus, towards the north, by the sea within Bylot Island, 
where lives a group which is undoubtedly closely connected with the Eskimo 
who live at Fury and Hecla Strait, which separates Baffin Land from the 
Melville peninsula. This group (Boas’s Iglulirmiut) is, however, again very 
closely connected with the southernmost inhabitants of the Melville peninsula, 
for which reason they have here been treated collectively. 
Tglulik, which signifies a place where Jglus or houses are found, is the 
name given by the Eskimo to an island which is situated in the eastern 
part of Fury and Hecla Strait, and is their chief gathering place in these 
regions (69° 18° N. lat. and 81° 30’—82° W. long.). Hivillik, according to 
Lyon, is the same as Repulse Bay, immediately south of the Arctic Circle, 
on the coasts and ice of which the large southern Eskimo-group of the 
Melville peninsula has its centre. Boas establishes two different tribes in 
these places, and treats the Iglulirmiut and the Ewwillirmiut separately. The 
geographical conditions in the two places in question agree rather closely, 
and so, consequently, do in some measure the economic conditions, where- 
fore they can here be treated collectively. The two main groups mentioned 
1 A. H. Marxuay, p. 20. 
* M. o. G., Vol. 51, pp. 176 sqq. 
* Parry, II, p. 100. 
* Doss, p. 49. 
® The principal works on which the description of this group is based are 
Boas, II, X and XI; Haut, II]; Lyon, I and II; Parry, IJ; Raz, I. Fora 
fuller quotation the reader is referred to Stzenssy, I, pp. 79—86. 
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