- His wife Manik.
- Minik (afterwards the murderer).
- Piuaitsoq, his wife.
- Avôrtungiaq, their son.
- Qumangâpik, his wife.
- Patdloq, their daughter.
- Igtugsârssua.
- Merqusâq.
- Qitdlarssuaq.
- His wife Aipak.
- Mátâq.
- His wife Tuluarssuk.
- Their son Sitdluk.
"We started on our journey in the winter, after the light came, and set up our permanent camp in the spring, when the ice broke. There were plenty of animals for food on the way, seals, white whales, walruses, and bears. Long stretches of the coast along which we had to drive were not covered with ice, and so we were often obliged to make our way over huge glaciers. On our way we also came to bird rocks, where auks built, and to some eider-duck islands.
"As we carried all our belongings with us, clothes, tents, hunting and fishing implements, kayaks, we used very long narrow sledges." (He gave me the measure of the sledges, which were twenty feet long and four feet wide.) "We had to have our sledges so long because the kayaks were carried on them. We had fastened whalebone, or walrus tusks, to our runners. Whalebone in particular made extraordinarily light running, especially in the spring, when the sun began to warm the snow and ice. But the lightest of all to pull, under a sledge runner, is the thick skin of the walrus. But this does not hold on pack ice. We had as many as twenty dogs for our sledges, with traces of varying length. It is not wise to drive so many dogs in a row with traces all the same length; they prevent each other pulling properly, when the number exceeds twelve. The outer ones, too, will pull at too sharp an angle from the sledge, unless you have impossibly long reins; and reins too long would not be wise, because the weight is felt more, the farther the dogs are from the sledge. We did not have uprights on our sledges. When we had to descend a snow-covered glacier we lashed thongs round our tires, so that they should not run too easily, and fastened the thongs to the
