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delta, parties of whom s]uMit tlic suniiiicrs of 1<S(;<» and IST(t whl, iijni. 

 From these parties he ai)i»'ars to have obtained tlie j;realcr i>arl <if the 

 information embodied in liis Mon(i.nTai)liic and Vocalmlairc, as he ex 

 plicitly states that he br.muht tin- last party to Vnv{ Cood Ilopi- 

 "autaut pour les instniirc a loisir (jnc |i(pnr aiipicndic d'cnx Icnr 

 idiome."' Nothinf;' seems to me more |irohalile than tliat lie learned 

 from these Mackenzie peoph' the names of their neij;hliorsot the Ander 

 son, which he had failed to obtain in his Hvin.u visits 5 years before, and 

 that it is the same name, •• KunniiVdlin," wliich we have followeil from 

 Norton Sound and found always a]i])lied to the jieople Jnst beyond us. 

 Could we learn the meaninji of this word the (pn-stion nn^lit be settled, 

 but the only possible derivation I ean see for it is from thedreeidanclic 

 KarmaK, a wall, which throws no light ujion the subject. I'etitot calls 

 the i)eo|)le of Cajie Bathurst Iv'a.!iinaliveit, wliich ap]i.'ais to mean 

 "the real Khnmu'dlin " ('• Kfihmu'dlih" and the attix vik, "the real"). 



The Kupfihiniun appear to iiihalnt the permanent villages which have 

 been seen near the western mouth of the Mackenzie, at Shiiii^lc Point' 

 and Point Sabine,' with an outlying village, supposed to be deserted, at 

 Point Kay." They are the natives described by Petitnt in his Mono 

 graphie as the Ta/'^ivnieut division of the Tchiglit, to whom, trom the 

 reasons already stated, most of his account seems to ajiply. There ap- 

 pears to me no reasonable doubt, c<msideriiig his opportunities for ob- 

 serving these people, that Ta/'co/'ineut, "those who dwell by the sea," 

 is the name that they actually a])]>ly to themselves, and that Ivuiinnmiun, 

 or Koitagmut, "those who live on the Great River," is a name bestowed 

 upon them by their neighbors, jierhaps their western neighbors alone, 

 since all the references to this name seem to be traceable to the author- 

 ity of Dr. Simiison. Should they a])ply to themselves a name of similar 

 meaning, it would probably be of a ditfereiit form, as, according to 

 Petitot,^ they call the Mackenzie Ku-.vik, instead of Kupuk or Kiipiin. 



These are the people who visit Fort Macpherson every sjiring and 

 summer,'- and are well known to the Hudson Bay traders as the .Mac- 

 kenzie Uivcr Eskimo. They are the Eskimo encountered between Her- 

 schel Island and the mouth of the Mackenzie by Franklin, by Dease and 

 Simpson, and by Hooper and Pullen, all of w honi have publislietl brief 

 notes concerning them.'' 



We are still somewhat at a loss for the proper local names of the last 



ol. 10, p. :in. 

 arrativc. p. 112. 



Mlc)i,)»T, ■r.-iitn. etc., p. 2M. 



Ml.i.l, p, ■JO. 



» Bull. So, , ill- (iiM>s., G a^'r,, vol. 10, p. 1H2. 



«ri-tilot, .Monographic, etc., pp. xvi and xx. 



'Franklin, 2(1 Kxp., pp. »9-lul, KC-llO, 114-119 and 128; T. Simpson, Ni>rrati\. iir 1"i M-' Hooper, 

 Tents, etc., pp. 2B:i-2(>4. There is also a brief note bv Uie Kev. W. W. Ki. 1,!- ■ I > lo the 

 Youcan." Sniilhsoniaii Report for lsr4. These, with Pctitofs in nnmy i. , ' ^'"n"- 

 irraphie conipri-c :; ili. ]:>r.~r.n.^t\..u u _,M.Iiii-fhisf. iicople from actual obsci'..ii:.u. ih.il li.i n pub- 

 lished. ' Kid,;,!.! 1 iK.nd in his "Searching Expc.litiuii- and "Polar 



Keiiions " 'I'li' i i i i,, ,,,,,1 iic. p. 125) arc a purcl.v h.v-iMthetical people in- 

 vented to fill the ,p'" 1" I" " " 11" -' !""1''^ '" ""^ "'"'*'» ">""* ''"' ^fiabascans in the south." 



