immigrants who came across [126] Smith Sound from The Baffin Land region some sixty (?) years ago and mingled with the Smith Sound Greenland natives. The old man, who was estimated to be seventy five or eighty years of age, could not resist the temptation offered by the ship's dietary and he overate to such an extent that he had an attack of acute indigestion and died a day or two later. The white men were surprised that the ship's supplies should be so attractive, even to an Eskimo. The chief regret aroused by the man's death seemed to be due to the fact that he had just been provided with a new kooltah (caribou skin coat). and superstition would prevent the