May, 16 1910

Knowledge of land. This group has names for all points and rivers on the mainland to Cape Lyon, but not beyond. They also name several points on Banks Island (including Nelson Head?). Banks, they say, is uninhabited, though. The Prince Albert Sound people occasionally spend the summer there, crossing by sled in spring and fall. [...]

Cooking. There seems to be very little uncooked meat eaten. I have seen two cases among Staypleton people of a single man at end of a meal asking for a piece of frozen meat because he had not had enough cooked meat. Tanaumirk has seen one meal where frozen meat formed “a course.” Today our dogs were fed cooked meat, “for,” they said, “meat frozen hard is not good for a dog.” […]