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a few days before. Going out of the river again the coast of Arctic 

 Sound was followed to its bottom. A fine large specimen of the Barren 

 Ground bear was killed at the south end of Baillie's cove, the extreme 

 bottom of Arctic Sound, where he was found digging roots from the 

 sandy soil near the mouth of a small creek. 



Native copper was found in amygdules on both sides of Banks Penin- 

 sula. Having struck a considerable copper-bearing district in Bathurst 

 Inlet, it was thought better to make a detailed geological sheet of this 

 important area than to attempt to make a complete survey of the bot- 

 tom of Bathurst Inlet outside of the copper area. Driftwood was very 

 scarce east of Kater Point, but by picking up every small piece we 

 saw on the beaches, we usually managed to carry enough in the boats 

 to last us a day or two. Bird and animal life was remarkably scarce 

 along the, coast. Caribou signs were seen occasionally, and fresh 

 tracks on some of the islands. A very fine large bull caribou was killed 

 on Kannayok Island, Bathurst Inlet, by Cox on September 3. Num- 

 bers of gulls were nesting in rookeries near Point Wollaston and on 

 the south side of the Barry Islands. 



"Barry Island" (cf. Franklin) instead of being a single island is 

 really a group of large islands. The region around Point Everitt is 

 known as Umingmuktok, and is the center of a fairly large group of 

 Eskimos called Umingmuktogmiut. The Eskimos who frequent the 

 southern and western parts of Bathurst Inlet are mostly Kilusiktog- 

 miut, and this region in general is known as Kilusiktok. 



As the season was getting advanced, we felt impelled to turn back 

 from Ekallialuk (Barry Island) on September 8, 1915, without going 

 to the bottom of Bathurst Inlet. The geological results had been 

 encouraging, for two large areas, each of several square miles in extent, 

 were discovered, in which the native copper is widely distributed, and 

 much valuable geological knowledge had been gained in tracing the 

 contact of the basalts with the granites and sedimentaries throughout 

 the region. The plan was made to complete the detailed mapping of 

 the copper-bearing area by sledge the following spring by one party, 

 while another party should fill in the gaps remaining in the coast 

 survey west of Bathurst Inlet. We [traveled part of the distance by 

 boat and part by sled after the freeze-up and] reached the station 

 November 9, 1915, and on that date received the first mail and news 

 from the outside world that we had received for fifteen months. 



Jenness, our ethnologist, arrived at Bernard Harbor on November 

 8, 1915. He had started out with a small band of Eskimos. These 

 Eskimos fulfilled all their promises and obligations to Jenness in a 

 very kindly and creditable manner. They spent most of the summer 

 in the Colville hills in southern Victoria Island, and did not go to 

 Prince Albert Soxind, as had been anticipated. A few Prince Albert 

 Sound Eskimos came to visit them in the spring, however. The party 

 were moving most of the time, following the caribou, and supplementing 



