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had not yet crossed over from Victoria island, and a band of perhaps fifty had 

 remained behind somewhere near the mouth of the Coppermine river. ThesH 

 Coppermine people moved northwards at the end of January, and by the middle 

 of February had camped off Locker point in a settlement of fifteen snow huts. 

 Roughly speaking, therefore, at the date of the expedition's arrival, there were 



Fig. 5. Eskimo camp off the mouth of the Coppermine river 

 (PhotobyJ. J. O'Neill) 



about 180 people in Dolphin and Union strait and at the west end of Coronation 

 gulf. Now that other white men and western natives are finding their way into 

 the country, Eskimos from all the surrounding regions will probably gravitate 

 to these parts, and the different groups will amalgamate even more than they 

 have done up to the present. 



Farther east there was a small group located around the Tree river, though 

 it extended east as far as Grays bay. Its members called themselves Ping- 

 angnaktomiut, Pingangnaktok being the name of the district south and east of 

 Tree river. Some of the older natives had not moved out of this locality for a 

 great many years. In the summer of 1915 there were nineteen natives (fourteen 

 adults and six children) fishing on the Tree river itself, and ten others (seven 

 adults and three children) fishing on the Anialik river which flows into Grays 

 bay.' In February, 1916, seventeen adults and eight children were living in 

 snow huts about seven miles north of Tree river, and six others (four adults 

 and two children) were travelling between this settlement and Bernard harbour. 

 The majority of these natives moved in to the mouth of the Tree river at the 

 beginning of May, and probably spent the summer in that vicinity. 



About seven miles northwest of the most western of the Jamieson islands 

 we found another settlement early in the same year. Here the natives called 

 themselves vaguely Kilusiktomiut, but different groups had their representatives 

 amongst them. A few days before our arrival (on March 2, 1916) they had 

 moved from a still larger settlement some ten miles northeast, where we found 

 the twenty-nine snow-huts they had just abandoned. Thirty-five of their 

 number had gone west to Bernard harbour, and about half the remainder went 

 northeast. About a dozen of the latter were seen by the biologist, Mr. F. 

 Johansen, in Wilbank bay on Victoria island on March 26, and a month later a 

 sledging party met them in Bathurst inlet. At the beginning of May about 

 thirty of these Kilusiktok natives were encamped on Hepburn island, whence 

 they moved across into Grays bay a week or two later. At that time thirteen 

 other natives were fishing about three miles east of Cape Barrow, and seven 



Hanbury found natives fishing at Grays bay in the late spring of 1903. 



