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Image missingFig. 111.Adze Head. Kangerarfigssuaq. 1:3. Gilder^[1] mentions house ruins at Tulloch Point, King William's Land "where the ruins of these underground houses were quite numerous. They had been built a great many years ago by the Ookjooliks, where they occupied the land before the Netsilik invasion. A long, low passage-way leads into each dwelling, so constructed as to exclude the wind from the interior, though ventilation is permitted by leaving open the door". Amundsen^[2] mentions "Some ruins of old stone huts, which we found in the vicinity of Ogchoktu (Gjøa Harbour), they thought had been Tungi huts".

In Repulse Bay a Netsilik Eskimo informed me that there were house ruins on Iluileg (Adelaide Peninsula).

The following particulars are due to Knud Rasmussen, who has obtained them from Eskimos. On King William's Land there are still to be seen ruins of winter houses at: Qoqa, between Pfeffer River and Gjøa Harbour; Orsortoq (apparently Image missingFig. 112.Snow Knife Handle. King Williams Land. 1:3. Amundsen's Ogchoktu), Gjøa Harbour (tent rings and a few houses); Eqalungmiut, doubtless Peel Inlet, on the northeast coast.

Also at Qingmertog, at Sherman Inlet, Adelaide Peninsula, where there is a big settlement with houses, tent rings and strong, stone-built graves; near Willersted Lake and Kangerdluk, both a little south of Boothia Isthmus, and Sarvaq near Igtuartorfik, Lord Mayor Bay, on the east side of Boothia Peninsula.

Finally, there are said to be house ruins in several places along the west side of Pelly Bay, and north of Bellot Strait a big settlement, Ekornangerfik, which however, is possibly identical with the settlement at Cape Garry