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included in the country of the Akulliakattangmiut, for when that group crossed 

 over from South bay in the autumn, it used to unite with the Haneragmiut at 

 this place and spend the first part of the winter seaUng in the vicinity. Although 

 the Haneragmiut are now extinct as a separate group, the Akulliakattangmiut 

 still cross over to Ingnerin and do not unite with their eastern neighbours as a 

 rule until after the sun returns, i.e., about February. 



Bordering on Hanerak is the district oiPuivlik. Beginning from Ingnerin, 

 it seems to reach to about Point Dickens, in the narrow strait just before it 

 broadens out to make Coronation gulf. The general trend of the coast trom 

 Nauyat to Simpson bay is southeast, with a broad deep bight at Simpson bay. 

 The Colville hills do not dip quite so far south, so that although at Richardson 

 bay they come within a mile or two of the coast, farther east, to the north of 

 Read island, the two are separated by an undulating plain from 10 to 15 miles 

 wide. This plain, like the Colville hills to the north, is full of lakes and ponds, 

 some of which, especially those close to and draining directly into the sea, teem 

 with fish, the sea salmon. North of Read island is the low peak Kingautak, a 

 very famihar landmark to the Eskimos. The Colville hills, which are of brown- 

 ish clay formation without signs of any rock exposure, sweep round to the 

 northeast with no apparent break, forming th« " Museum range " remarked by 

 Mr. Stefansson. Here there is one very prominent peak, visible even from 



Fig. 2. View of Mount Wivyaurun from Lake Angmaloktok, Colville hills, S.W. Victoria island 



Simpson bay in clear weather; Mr. Stefansson called it Mount Bumpus, while 

 the Eskimo name is Wivyaurun. Some ten miles NNW. of Wivyaurun, ui about 

 lat. 69° 45' N and long. 113° W., is a large lake apparently about ten miles in 

 diameter, though it is difiicult in the spring to distinguish islands from shore 

 line even with the binoculars. This is Lake Tahiryuak, beyond the Colville 

 divide, a well-known rendezvous where the Puivlik natives of the south meet the 

 Kanghiryuak natives of the north in the later days of spring. From Mount 

 Wivyaurun, Museum range (or the Colville hills), for the two here seem identical, 

 appears to continue down to the southward, probably with a trend east. 



The Colville hills enclose an enormous number of lakes and ponds, ranging 

 from tiny lagoons a few yards wide to lakes several miles in diameter. All 

 except those that freeze to the bottom in winter abound in lake trout and lake 



