upper Kazan River between Ennadai Lake and Hikoligjuaq inhabited by a population which, under the circumstances, must be called dense. "Almost every day we passed two or three Eskimo villages", and no less than 44 tents were counted on this stretch.[1] Nowadays Dubawnt Lake and Dubawnt River seem to be quite uninhabited; in 1893 the Image missingFig. 7.Middle-aged Pâdlimio. Eskimo Point. Tyrrell brothers saw "stone circles, dog-whip handles, stone arrow-heads, pieces of the ribs of kyacks, etc." north of Dubawnt Lake.[2] This place may almost just as well have been inhabited by the Pâdlimiut from the southeast, Harvaqtormiut from the east and Qaernermiut from the north. It is outside the territory proper of these tribes but within the extension possibilities of them all. Between Grant and Wharton Lakes the Tyrrell brothers met a single family, and it is stated that "the hunt for musk-oxen was what had brought this venturesome hunter far up the river in advance of his tribe".[3] The expression "up the river" indicates that in this case the people were the Qaernermiut.
Number of population. The fact that the Caribou Eskimos are divisible into no less than four main groups must not lead to exaggerated ideas as to their total numbers. In 1922 and 1923 Knud Rasmussen and I kept an exact tally of all with whom we came into con-
