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over beyond Operdniviug. In traveling to Aqbirsiarbing the tide 

 holes of Ikerassaqdjuaq (Lupton Channel) are avoided by using the 

 pass of Chappell Inlet. Here and in Tornait the natives go sealing 

 on the ice or walrusing at the edge of the tloe, which in most cases is 

 not very far off. 



About the latter half of March part of the Eskimo begin to travel 

 up Frobisher Bay. In the middle of April, 1802, Hall found a settle- 

 ment on Qeqertuqdjuaq (Gabriel Island), from which island the floe 

 edge was visited and young seals were caught in the narrow chan- 

 nels between the niimerous islands. Towards the end of the month 

 a portion of the natives went farther to the northwest in pursuit of 

 the basking seals (I, p. 470), intending to i-each the head of the bay 

 in July. Hall found summer habitations at Ukadliq (I, p. 4G8) ; on 

 Field Bay (p. 296); and on Frobisher Bay at Agdlinartung (p. 308), 

 Opera Glass Point (p. 341), Waddell Bay (p. 341), and Nuvuktualung, 

 on the southern point of Beecher Peninsula (p. 348). 



A very important hunting ground of the inhabitants of Tiniq- 

 djuai"biusirn (Frobisher Bay), of which I received some detailed ac- 

 counts, is Lake Amaqdjuaq. In the foregoing remarks on the Akii- 

 liaq tribe I described the course which leads from Hudson Strait t(j 

 the lake. Another route is followed in traveling from the head of 

 Frobisher Bay to Lake Amaqdjuaq, a distance of aboiit fifty miles. 

 Probably the men leave Sylvia Grinnell River and ascend to Lake 

 Amartung, from which lake a brook runs westward to Lake Amaq- 

 djuaq (Baffin-Land, p. 68). The women take a different route and 

 arrive at Aqbeniling after a tramp of six days, near a small bay 

 called Metja. Here the summer huts are erected and birds and deer 

 are killed in abundance. 



The facility in reaching the lake from Hudson Strait and Frob- 

 isher Bay is a very important consideration, as the Akuliarmiut and 

 the Nugumiut meet here, and thus an immediate intercourse between 

 the tribes is opened. The inhabitants of Hudson Strait leave Tuniq- 

 ten in spring, arrive at the head of Frobisher Bay in the fall, and 

 after the formation of the ice reach the Nugumiut settlements l)y 

 means of sledges. When Hall wintered in Field Bay a traveling 

 party of Sikosuilarmiut which had accomplished the distance from 

 King Cape in one year arrived there (I, p. 267). 



Another route, which is practicable only for boats, connects Qau- 

 mauang with Nugumiut. It leads along the shore of Hudson Strait. 

 The traveler sails through the dangerous passage between Tudjaq- 

 djuaq (Resolution Island) and the mainland and crosses Frobisher 

 Bay either at its entrance or in the shelter of the group of islands 

 farther up the bay. 



In their intercourse with tlie Nugumiut. the inhabitants of Cum- 

 berland Sound generally follow the long coast between Ukadliq and 

 Naujateling, passing through the numerous sounds formed by long, 



