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Tudjan from Nedlung, runs a very swift tide, which keeps open 

 a water hole throughout the winter. All around this place, the 

 ice wastes quickly in the spring, and a large basin is formed, 

 which abounds with seals. Only that part of the peninsula 

 which lies nearest North Devon is high and steep, presenting 

 a bold face. Farther north it is rather low. — Having reached 

 Umingman Nuna, the Eskimo who gave me this information 

 affirm that tliey fell in with a small tribe who resided on this 

 shore. Here they lived for some time, as there was an abund- 

 ance of seals during the whole year. Farther northwest is a 

 large fjord, Kangertluksiaq, off which an island is found, 

 Qeqertakadlinang by name. The Eskimo do not visit the land 

 on the other side of the fjord, as bears are said to be very 

 numerous and large there. Though these migrations to Jones 

 Sound do not occur very frequently, they have by no means 

 been discontinued. For instance, a family which was well 

 known to me has visited Smith Sound, and the father of some 

 friends of a resident of Cumberland Sound returned about fifteen 

 years ago from a long stay on Tudjan and Nedlung." 



It seems to me that this description of the unknown regions 

 in the north written about 20 years ago on the basis of the 

 accounts of the natives of Baffin Land is in a striking manner 

 confirmed by Sverdrup's latest discoveries (1899 — 1902), with 

 but the one difference that Sverdrup did not see any Eskimo 

 in EUesmere Land, but only traces of them. On the maps 

 showing the geographical results of the expedition, which were 

 published by G. Isachsen in Petermanns Mittheilungen, North 

 Devon does end in a peninsula, Avhereby Jones Sound is greatly 

 narrowed, and through the sound runs a swift tide. Kangertliik- 

 siaq, the large fjord mentioned, with the island lying just out- 

 side, is probably one of the fjords on the west side of EUes- 

 mere Land, where the Norwegian expedition found the places 

 which were richest in animal and plant life. From here, there 

 is only a little distance to Smith Sound and to the northern- 



