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caribou, though such regions may be visited by the herds during the winter. 
Their autumn movements, which partake of the nature of migrations from 
the interior to the seacoast, are notoriously erratic. In recent years 
caribou have disappeared from areas which they formerly occupied. 
No caribou were observed during the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 
1923. In summer, as a rule, the caribou of the Arctic islands are far 
inland. Natives asserted that the caribou nearest to Ponds inlet in August, 
were 70 to 80 miles to the southwest. They were formerly abundant on 
the shores of Eclipse sound. In Strathcona sound, Admiralty inlet, 
numerous old caribou antlers and bones were seen on the site of a long- 
abandoned Eskimo village. The Hudson’s Bay Company’s officers 
reported that in 1922 large herds were present in Pangnirtung, Kingnait, 
and Nettilling fiords. William Duval stated that caribou in large numbers 
are present in June about Nettilling and Amadjuak lakes, where they give 
birth to their young. 
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police at Pangnirtung stated that in 
the autumn of 1923 the first caribou appeared at the coast on October 4. 
They formed a herd of forty which was seen at intervals until December 18, 
when the herd moved inland. The next caribou were observed on April 
10, when small companies appeared along the fiord. On January 26, a 
few caribou were seen 18 miles east of American harbour. On January 18 
a police patrol saw two caribou on the ice 15 miles from shore near Net- 
tilling fiord. The animals were observed in Kingnait fiord as late as April, 
1924. 
In 1924, the natives at Blacklead island killed the first coast caribou 
of the year in Bear sound on August 24. Two days later the present 
writer killed a male in the same locality. Eight were shot near here by 
the natives on September 3. At Pangnirtung fiord in the autumn of 1924 
caribou were first seen on October 14. Large herds appeared on the west 
side of the fiord (for long years they have been absent from the mountains 
on the east side) on October 22, when a large series of specimens, including 
adult males and females, yearlings, and calves of the year, was secured. 
Another large herd appeared on November 8, when the natives killed 
about thirty animals. Caribou frequented the mountain valleys between 
Pangnirtung fiord and the upper reaches of Cumberland sound throughout 
the remainder of 1924 and the early part of 1925. In January, 1925, many 
caribou were killed by the Eskimos near American harbour, cape Nasauyak, 
and south of Sirmilling bay in Issortukdjuak fiord, and small herds were 
reported to be frequenting the upper ends of Pangnirtung and Kingnait 
fiords. 
On the journey to the east coast in February and March, 1925, the 
first observed signs of caribou were a number of trails about two-thirds of 
the way across Pangnirtung pass. In the northern Pangnirtung fiord 
caribou trails were seen on February 12, in deep snow up to an altitude of 
1,000 feet. According to the natives no caribou were being found near 
Broughton island, but numbers were said to be frequenting the valleys 
about Meartajene fiord. Caribou were entirely absent from Kevetuk 
region. At Padle, Merchants bay, the natives had been securing caribou 
in plenty in Kanatukjuak and Padle fiords. The Eskimos said their 
movements at times were odd; frequently the herds travelled into the 
interior one week and returned to the coast region the next week. The 
winds may influence such movements. The herds probably do not travel 
