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and camped after about eight miles beside a lake on the north side of Mount 

 Arrowsmith. The Eskimos caught a few fish here by rocking the boulders 

 that lay one on top of another near the margin of the lake, and spearing 

 the fish as they darted out from under them. Kesullik. used a small double 

 gaff for this purpose, but the rest of the natives merely lashed broad pieces 

 of antler to their walking-sticks. The fish varied in length from 3 inches to 

 1 foot. 



September 6: We continued our journey southeast for about seven miles, and 

 camped beside a large lake named Pisiksitorvik, where many of the Hanerak 

 natives had fallen sick and died several years before. Our stock of food 

 was running low again, though we still had a good supply of lard. All the 

 men went hunting as soon as the tents were pitched, and shot three caribou 

 about three miles away. It was then almost dark, so the hunters left most 

 of the meat to be picked up next day, and carried only the skins and two 

 shoulders to camp. 



September 7 : We moved to where the caribou lay, and the women cut up the 

 carcasses. Some of the meat was cooked at once, the remainder was stored 

 away in bags for future consumption. The short summer season was now 

 at an end and all the smaller lakes were beginning to freeze over again. 



September 8: While Higilak was cooking some deer-meat for our breakfast 

 several of the Eskimos went fishing; half their breakfast therefore was made , 

 up of raw fish. We packed southeast again, camping at dusk in the bed of 

 a dried-up stream where willows were plentiful. 



September 9 : We packed east again through a meadow clothed with Eriophorum 

 seeds, which the women gathered for their lamps. No caribou were seen all 

 day, consequently the dogs had to go hungry. We ourselves had a little 

 dried meat and some lard for supper. 



September 10: There was a heavy fall of snow in the night, and a blizzard raged 

 throughout the day. We had to move on nevertheless, for our supplies 

 were running low again. There was no hope of sighting any caribou 

 through the clouds of driving snow, and as the weather was cold and our 

 packs heavy we camped early, about 4 p.m. 



September 11: We moved eiast to Tipfiktok, though the weather continued very 

 stormy. Two small caribou were shot during the day. All the smaller 

 lakes were frozen over by this time. 



September 12: We packed east to EpiuUik, where Pissuak's people had cached 

 their goods in the spring. To reach it we had to cross a lake named Tunun- 

 geok, which was covered with glare ice about 3 inches thick. The Eskimos 

 laid down their packs and dragged them across the lake, placing their 

 walking-sticks underneath to act as sled-runners. Higilak proposed to 

 divine in the evening, to discover why caribou were so scarce, but for some 

 reason or other the performance did not take place. 



September 13: Pissuak and the other natives who had left us on August 15 

 made their appearance today; they had travelled back to Lake Angmaloktok 

 to fish. _ Higilak's divining performances, postponed from yesterday, took 

 place this evening. 



September 14: The whole party had intended to remain at EpiuUik to intercept 

 the returning caribou, but Ikpakhuak now changed his mind and deter- 

 mined to go to Okauyarvik instead. He and his family, therefore, myself 

 included, packed east again, and camped about three miles inland beside a 

 small lake from which we could obtain water. 



September 15 — October 13: We remained at Okauyarvik for nearly a month 

 caribou hunting. On the 15th Higilak went down to our caches on the 

 coast and brought back, among other things, a sealskin tent which could be 

 used as a kitchen. During the next few days she gathered a large quantity 



