136 Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18 



July 21 — 29: The Eskimos fished every day in Lake Angmaloktok, the only lake 

 in this neighbourhood that still remained completely ice-bound. Higilak 

 held another shamanistic performance on the 29th. 



July 30: The camp was moved to Lake Numikhoin. As soon as we reached our 

 destination the children stripped and played about in the water all the 

 evening. 



July 31: After caching a little more meat and fish, we moved south about 

 three miles. Then a caribou was sighted, and the caravan halted to allow 

 us to stalk it. As soon as it was killed Ikpakhuak climbed a ridge and 

 signalled our success by running to and fro three or four times. There- 

 upon the women pitched the tents, while the children brought over our 

 pack-straps and we carried the carcass to camp. 



August 1 : We trekked south again. About five miles from the sea was a curious 

 outcrop of dolomite; it resembled in some respects the floor of an old 

 temple, for it was almost level and the stone was cracked into more or less 

 rectangular blocks. Formerly a kayak had been cached here on two 

 pillars made by piling some of the blocks on top of one another. The 

 kayak was gone, but the pillars still remained. A caribou was sighted, 

 so we pitched camp and tried to stalk it, but the animal winded us and 

 fled. Every one returned to camp except Ikpakhuak, who followed after 

 it and returned early the following morning with the news that he had 

 shot two caribou. 



August 2 : We moved west about four miles, then cafnped close to the caribou 

 that Ikpakhuak had shot. Some of the natives went hunting. Willow 

 and heather were plentiful in this coastal region south of the Colville hills, 

 giving us far better fuel than the okauyak that we had been using. The 

 weather was fine and warm, so Ikpakhuak, instead of setting up his tent, 

 slept out in the open with his wife. However, it rained in the night, and 

 he had to set up his tent after all. 



August 3 : The rain lasted all through the morning, so we spent an idle day in 

 camp. In the evening three of the Eskimos bathed in a creek; they could 

 "dog-paddle" for short distances, but had no idea of the art of swimming. 



August 4 : Several of us went down to Okauyarvik to cache some meat and 

 fish. Ikpakhuak and Avranna separated from us there, and went to 

 look for caribou and birds' eggs. On our way back we raised two ptarmigan 

 with their fledgelings among some willows. The Eskimos caught the 

 young ones and made them cry in order to attract the parents and bring 

 them within easy range of their arrows; but they succeeded in shooting 

 only one of the birds. We made a slight deviation from our course in 

 order to visit a cache of caribou meat that Ikpakhuak had made the previous 

 summer. The meat proved to be full of maggots, but the dogs had a good 

 feast, and the Eskimos cracked the bones and ate the marrow. 



August 5: We packed westward, following the coasthne at a distance of about 

 four miles inland. Ikpakhuak and Avranna joined us again just before 

 we made camp. 



August 6 : We travelled west again and met Okalluk and Tusayok and their 

 families, whom we had not seen since out party broke up on June. 27. They 

 joined us in our trek westward. About 5 p.m. two caribou were sighted, 

 so we laid down our packs and went in pursuit of them, leaving four women 

 to make camp. There were no ridges to conceal our approach, so the 

 natives held a council and planned a drive. Milukkattak and Kanneyuk 

 made their way round behind the deer while the men set up a row of stones 

 to fence the deer off on one side, capping the stones with black turf so that 

 they resembled the heads of hunters lying half concealed. On the other 



