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each secured a caribou. On the 14th everyone stayed in camp and feasted. 

 During the day the natives set up a clod of earth for a target and shot at 

 it with their arrows. The children played about, bathing in the lake and 

 shooting at imaginary deer from miniature pits. 



August 15: We divided into two bands and moved westward again. Ikpak- 

 huak, Avranna, Tusayok and their families travelled along three or four 

 miles in from the shore, while the rest went farther inland. Our party 

 (Ikpakhuak's), after securing three caribou, camped for the night beside 

 a lake called Tasieluk, about three miles long and a mile wide, situated 

 directly below Mount Arrowsmith, which the natives call Annorillit. 



August 16: Instead of migrating this day the Eskimos went hunting, but they 

 obtained nothing except a brown crane. 



August 17: We packed west to the Kugaluk river, securing one caribou after 

 the camp was pitched. While travelling the natives caught three small 

 fish from 4 inches to 6 inches long that had come up the river from the sea. 

 These they ate raw, though heather and willow were plentiful all around us. 



August 18: We had now accumulated so much green meat that the Eskimos 

 determined to dry it, thereby both preserving it and making it lighter to 

 carry. Early in the morning therefore they strung it across some poles in the 

 sunlight, and left it in charge of Hakka, Tusayok's wdfe. Her husband left 

 her his tent, taking for himself and his son only a few caribou skins. We 

 then packed northwest across the stream Attautsikkiak to a huge crag 

 named Kunuamnak on the forward slope of Mount Kingmiktorvik. A 

 yearhng caribou was sighted about noon and shot by Avranna, who cached 

 the meat under some stones. Another caribou was shot near our evening 

 camp. 



August 19: Three caribou were sighted from the camp in the morning and a 

 drive was organised, but only one of them was secured. Ikpakhuak then 

 went down to the shore to look for driftwood, and returned in the evening 

 with a large board studded with nails, and with several smaller pieces of 

 wood. The board had probably dropped overboard from a whaUng ship 

 and drifted ashore at this place. 



August 20: Snow fell in the night, but it changed to rain in the morning. The 

 Eskimos stayed in bed till it ceased, singing, playing, gossiping and sleeping. 

 Later in the day Ikpakhuak and Tusayok split up the plank to make fish- 

 spear handles. 



August 21 : A gale was blowing and snow falling at intervals during the morning- 

 We broke camp nevertheless and trekked north, for our food supply was 

 running low again. About 1 p.m. we were stopped by a blinding snowstorm 

 and had to pitch camp and dine on raw meat and back-fat, as it was impossi- 

 ble to light a fire. Raw meat to the natives is about the equivalent of a 

 bread and butter diet to us, while caribou back-fat, raw or cooked, is a 

 luxury corresponding to jam. 



August 22: We packed north about two miles, when we sighted caribou. A 

 drive was organised and three killed, one by Tusayok with an arrow; it 

 was the first caribou he had secured the whole summer. The sky cleared 

 during the day and the snow melted rapidly, but the wind was very keen. 

 Higilak, who had brought only one coat, improvised a second one out of 

 Kanneyuk's sleeping bag; she ripped out the stitches in the morning before 

 we began packing and sewed the skin up again at night. 



August 23: We moved a few miles north again, securing three caribou. Higilak 

 and Milukkattak were the only women in our party, and the latter spent 

 much of her time in hunting. Nearly all the cooking therefore fell on 

 Higilak, who found her work rather strenuous. The children, Kanneyuk 

 and Haugak, generally gathered the fuel for her, willow twigs or heather, 

 whichever was nearer to hand.. Besides the cooking she had to mend the 



