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wards from Cape Graham Moore to Navy 

 Board Inlet, and pointed out the position of 

 the northern wreck a few miles east of Cape 

 Hay. Had it been conspicuous, we must have 

 seen it when we slowly drifted along that coast. 



These people usually winter in snow-huts at 

 Green Point, a mile or two within the northern 

 entrance of Pond's Bay. They hunt the seal 

 and narwhal, but when the sea becomes too 

 open they retire to Kaparoktolik ; and when 

 the remaining ice breaks up — usually about the 

 middle of August — a further migration takes 

 place across the inlet to the S.W., where rein- 

 deer abound, and large salmon are numerous 

 in the rivers. Every winter they communicate 

 with the Igloolik people. Two winters ago 

 (1856-7) some people who live far beyond 

 Igloolik, in a country called A-ka-nee (pro- 

 bably the Ak-koo-lee of Parry), brought from 

 there the information of white people having 

 come in two boats, and passed a winter in 

 snow-huts at a place called by the following- 

 names : — A-mee-lee-oke, A-wee-lik, Net-tee-lik. 



Our friends pointed to our whale-boat, and said 

 the boats of the white people were like it, but 

 larger. These whites had tents inside their 

 snow-huts; they killed and eat reindeer and 

 narwhal, and smoked pipes ; they bought dresses 



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