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however, a strong arm would be required. The animals which they kill with 

 the bow and arrow for their subsistence are principally the musk-ox and deer, 

 and less frequently the bear, wolf, fox, hare, and some of the smaller 

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It is a curious fact, that the musk-ox is very rarely found to extend his 

 migrations to the eastward of a line passing through Repulse Bay, or about 

 the meridian of 86° West, while, in a northern direction, we know that he 

 travels as far as the seventy-sixth degree of latitude. In Greenland this 

 animal is known only by vague and exaggerated report ; on the western 

 coast of Baffin's Bay it has certainly been seen, though very rarely, by the 

 present inhabitants ; and the eldest person belonging to the Winter Island 

 tribe had never seen one to the eastward of Eiwillik, where, as well as at 

 AM'oblee, they are said to be numerous on the banks of fresh-water lakes 

 and streams. The few men who had been present at the killing of one of 

 these creatures, seemed to pride themselves very much upon it, Toolooak, 

 who was about seventeen years of age, had never seen either the musk-ox 

 or the kdblee-drioo, a proof that the latter, also, is not common in this corner 

 of America. 



The rein-deer are killed by the Esquimaux in great abundance in the 

 summer season, partly by driving them from islands or narrow necks of land 

 into the sea, and then spearing them from their canoes ; and partly by shoot- 

 ing them from behind heaps of stones raised for the purpose of watching 

 them, and imitating their peculiar bellow or grunt, Among the various arti- 

 fices which they employ for this purpose, one of the most ingenious consists in 

 two men walking directly from the deer they wish to kill, when the animal 

 almost always follows them. As soon as they arrive at a large stone, one of 

 the men hides behind it with his bow, while the other continuing to walk 

 on soon leads the deer within range of his companion's arrows. They are 

 also very careful to keep to leeward of the deer, and will scarcely go out 

 after them at all when the weather is calm. For several weeks in the course 

 of the summer, some of these people almost entirely give up their fishery on 

 the coast, retiring to the banks of lakes several miles in the interior, which 

 they represent as large and deep and abounding with salmon, while the 

 pasture near them affords good feeding to numerous herds of deer. 



The distance to which these people extend their inland migrations, and 

 the extent of coast of which they possess a personal knowledge, are really 

 very considerable. Of these we could at the time of our first intercourse form 



