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born, lived six years at Admiralty Inlet and five years at Ponds Inlet, having spent the remaining time among the Aiviliks at Fullerton and Repulse Bay; his older brother Utsutsiaq, who now lives at Ponds Inlet, was born at Iglulik and has previously lived on Depot Island, at Repulse Bay, Iglulik and Admiralty Inlet, whilst his younger brother Aua, who now lives south of Pt. Elisabeth, has spent most of his life at Iglulik. It is a common thing in a family to meet one member among the Aivilingmiut, another among the Iglulingmiut and a third among the Tununermiut.

Some statistics, which I drew up at Ponds Inlet, illustrate these conditions:

Of the 55 adult men of whom 1 had information, 25 were born at Ponds Inlet, four at Admiralty Inlet, 20 at Iglulik, one at C. Wilson, one at Repulse Bay, one on Depot Island and three at Home Bay.

Of 33 adult men at Ponds Inlet of whom I made enquiries, 32 had been at Admiralty Inlet, 24 at Iglulik, 16 at the fjord Anaularealing, 5 at River Clyde, 4 at Home Bay, 13 at Repulse Bay, 8 at Wager Bay. 7 at Fullerton, 6 on Depot Island and at Chesterfield Inlet, 7 at Piling, one at Nyboe's Fjord. 14 on North-Devon, 5 on North Somerset, one on Bathurst Island, one on Cornwallis Island and one on Prince of Wales Island.

At Ponds Inlet I met 26 adults who had near relatives (parents. children or brothers and sisters) at Iglulik, 9 at Repulse Bay, 5 on Southampton Island, one at Chesterfield Inlet and 7 at Home Bay.

From all this it will be seen how closely connected are the Ponds Inlet Eskimos especially with the inhabitants of Iglulik, but also with the Repulse Bay people, despite the great distance between these two places.

That these are not new conditions, caused by circumstances connected with whaling and trading, is seen from particulars of much earlier date. Parry's[1] two Eskimo maps, drawn on Winter Island, extend from Nuvuk south of Wager Bay to Ponds Inlet, and later on he writes that “a great number of these people, who were born at Amitioke and Igloolik, had been to Noowook, or nearly as south as Chesterfield Inlet, which is about the ne plus ultra of their united knowledge in a southerly direction."[2] Hall[3] at Nuvuk met an Eskimo, Armou, who could draw a map from Churchill to the south coast of North Devon, from the west coast of Committee Bay to the west coast of Southampton Island, and later he mentions a man,

  1. ↑ Parry 1824, p. 197–98.
  2. ↑ I. c., p. 513.
  3. ↑ 1879, p. 225.
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