APPENDIX 753 



sity," a little cabin built in the fall of 1915, by Eev. H. Girling, of the 

 Anglican Mission service, and his assistants, Mr. G. E. Merritt, of St. 

 John, N. B., and Mr. W. H. B. Hoare, of Ottawa. They had intended 

 to come farther east, but had been cast up with their little schooner 

 nearly a hundred miles west of the Eskimos they were intending to 

 work among. Their schooner was apparently vminjured, and they ex- 

 pected to move in to Dolphin and Union Strait in the summer of 1916, 

 and establish a mission at Bernard Harbor. The p.resent western 

 range of the Copper Eskimos extends usually to Cape Bexley or South 

 Bay; west of that point is a 200-mile stretch of coast to Cape Lyon 

 permanently uninhabited, and usually uninhabited west to Cape Bath- 

 urst, about 400 miles. 



[We explored Croker River about 40 miles inland and found it to 

 flow through rocky, comparatively barren country. No noteworthy min- 

 eral outcrops were found, game was scarce, and no signs of ovibos were 

 found.] 



We returned to the coast March 24, and reached Bernard Harbor 

 April 2. The coldest weather of the winter was recorded while we 

 were in camp up the Croker River, 46 degrees below zero Fahrenheit 

 at 6 A. M., March 21. The thermometer rose to 9 degrees below zero 

 at 4 :30 the same day. The minimum temperature at Bernard Harbor 

 the same day was 38 below zero, and the maximum 23 below zero. 



A number of the eastern Eskimos came to Bernard Harbor late in 

 March and many interesting gramophone records of the language and 

 dialects were obtained. Earlier in the winter some Eskimos came 

 from a greater distance to visit the station, notably a man named 

 Kakshavik or Kakshavinna, calling himself a Pallirmiut, from the 

 northwestern side of Hudson Bay. He claimed to have come from 

 a timbered country far to the eastward, and had traded at a white 

 man's post, from his description apparently in the region of Baker Lake 

 or the Kazan River. 



Johansen, with Ovayuak (Eskimo) for companion, made a trip along 

 the south shore of Victoria Island, leaving the station March 6, and 

 returning April 11, 1916. They crossed by way of the Listen and 

 Sutton Islands, Lady Franklin Point, visited the Miles Islands, and 

 went along the Richardson Islands as far as Murray Point on the south 

 shore of Victoria Island. No Eskimos were seen except one group 

 camped on the ice near Cape Murray. He made such botanical collec- 

 tions as were possible at that season, took a few zoological specimens, 

 and a number of specimens of rock at various points along the south 

 shore of Victoria Island. A few caribou were seen on southern Victoria 

 Island on March 19 and 21. The most important results of his trip 

 were a number of species of fossil corals collected on one corner of 

 Listen Island in Dolphin and Union Strait, as recognizable fossils 

 are very hard to find in that whole region. After his return Johansen 

 spent the rest of the season in completing his biological investigations 



