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For the Eskimos at Ponds Inlet, Button Point (Sanerun) is the spring settlement; they gather here in May-June for ũtoq-seal hunting and later on the very profitable hunting of narwhals from the ice edge and in open holes and cracks in the ice. Since the Hudson's Bay Company built a small station at the adjacent Kôroqdjuaq in 1923. Fig. 6.Button Point. this has now become the principal hunting ground. As the ice gradually breaks up, the Eskimos move further in, to Qaersut, Albert Harbour or Kaparoqtalik, where M'Clintock's Expedition met them in August 1858.^[1] When the ice is quite broken up, they now move to the two trading stations, Igaqdjuaq and Mitimatalik, where they spend the summer, hunting seals and narwhals with the boat and kayak although some of them — seven families in the summer of 1923 — go away caribou hunting before the ice breaks; important grounds for this are Qorloqtoq in Milne Inlet (where Eskimos sometimes live all the year round, on salmon fishing), Low Point on the west side of Navy Board Inlet and the head of Arctic Sound. Before the trading stations were built, Qilalukan and Qaersuarssuit were important summer settlements. Late in the winter, when caribou hunting is over, they formerly assembled at Qilalukan, which was