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Hall[1] also found many people at Iglulik when he visited the place on March 1–4; there he counted 42 women; on March 6th he found 23 snow-houses on the ice off Iglulik.
On March 30th, 1922, when Freuchen and I arrived at Iglulik, only five families were living at the settlement itself, whereas three other families had left there for a trading journey to Repulse Bay; when we returned to Iglulik in May, 17 families were living there, a number who earlier had lived out on the ice having moved in. On April 16th, 1923, four families lived at Iglulik whereas five had gone to Ponds Inlet to trade.
Pingerqalik is a low point on the mainland, south of Iglulik; here, too, there are many whale-bone houses, whereas the modern snow-house village lies by the beach just as at Iglulik. Like Iglulik, Pingerqalik is an important hunting ground for walruses. Parry[2] says that in March 1823 "Pingitkalik" was inhabited, and Hall[3] also met Eskimos there in April 1868. In March 1922 six families were living there, in April 1923 ten, and in February 1924 four families.
Arversiorvik and Ungerlôdjan, the two most important summer settlements of the Igluliks, lie close together a little west of Pingerqalik; the first is simply marked by some few meat caches and tent rings; Ungerlôdjan, however, which of late years has been the principal place for hunting walrus from boats, has many large meat caches, some high cairns and tent rings; it lies on the two lowest shore terraces. Arversiorvik is presumably identical with Parry's Ag-wisse-o-wik,[4] which, however, is given as lying within S. Uglit, whereas it actually lies within N. Uglit; this is probably a misunderstanding; the point within S. Uglit (Uglerlârssuk) is called Qarman.