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spend the summer on Boothia Fehx peninsula. Some of them journey as far 

 south as Committee gulf (bay) where they barter with the Ivelinmiut [Aiviling- 

 miut]. The Eleneremeut are the smallest of these three tribes and are perhaps 

 the most local tribe of natives I have ever known. Adelaide peninsula in 

 sunimer and the portion of Queen Maud's sea up to the Royal Geographical 

 Society's islands and Lind island in winter, this is about the limit of their hunting 

 ground, although some individuals have been as far south as Committee gulf 

 (bay). 



■'The third tribe, the Olcokishalugmiut [Ukkusiksaligmiut] are the people 

 who live at the mouth of Great Fish river whose other name is not Arkelanik 

 [Akilinnik or Thelon] but the Olcohisluk [Ukkusiksalik.]! The Arkelanik 

 [Akilinnik] seems to be a branch of the Great Fish river^ leading to the eastward 

 or towards Chesterfield inlet, here where the Bathurst inlet and the Coronation 

 gulf people used to go and meet the Chesterfield people to barter — hence its 

 name. Those Olcohishicamiut [Ukkusiksaligmiut] are probably the most 

 miserable people in the winter time I have ever seen or heard of. They have 

 no seal or oil for their lamps nor fuel for fire. All of their grub is composed 

 mostly of fish in winter, caribou and ox [musk-ox] in summer. There seems to 

 be a close relation between the three tribes and they seldom come in contact 

 with western people, but very often with eastern people. It seems by all accounts 

 that they are on the decline, and to add to their misery syphilis is among them; 

 some cases are far advanced. The Victoria island people are all clean and healthy, 

 even more so than the gulf people. 



"The Ecolotock [Ekaluktok] does not empty into Albert Edward bay 

 as stated by Mr. Stefansson, but empties into Wellington bay, Dease strait. 

 It is a river of considerable size apparently, from its mouth and from native 

 report. Its head rises near the headwaters of a river which flows into Prince 

 Albert sound and is the common highway for the natives of Prince Albert 

 sound to communicate with the Kilelarmut. 



"There are two rivers in Albert Edward bay, neither one of much importance. 

 The Oherackquak [Oyaragyuak] (so named from the rocky country it flows 

 through). It runs in a westerly direction and leads near the Ekelolocktuock 

 [Ekaluktok]. The other river's name is the Ekitegoggeyock [Ikittigagyuak] 

 flowing in a northerly direction in a chain of lakes of the same name (so named 

 from the large number of Sabine's gulls that breed along their banks). It is a 

 favourite hunting place for the Kililermiut, particularly in the fall, on account 

 of the large number of lake trout they get in those lakes. These fish are the 

 largest and best eating fish I have ever known in the Arctic. The boundary 

 of these lakes, which lies in about 70 [degrees] north, seems to be about the 

 farthest north those natives hunt on the eastern coast of Victoria island. 



Archeology. 



"I want to tell you that we did quite a little work in archaeology at Krusen- 

 stem. We located the site of three villages, apparently of different age. Two 

 of them were on the gravel bar immediately west of the cape, two or three 

 hundred yards from the beach. The site of the third was on the highest part 

 of the divide where the trail crosses the neck of land inside of the cape. At 

 this latter one we did no excavation. Mr. A. H. Anderson, the man that I brought 

 with me, had stopped at Krusenstern to trap and trade, and did a considerable 

 amount of excavation on the site of the two lower villages, where he succeeded 



•strictly speaking, Ukkusiksalik seems to be only the delta of the river, with the adjoining region, 

 the river itself being called Saningaiyok. 



2The Akilinnik or Thelon is not a branch, however, of Backs or the Great Fish river, though the 

 sources of the two rivers are not far apart. 



