[Footnote N76: Koyū´-ku´kh-otā´nā, Dall, Cont. to N. A. Eth., p. 27.] [Footnote N77: Ibid., p. 28.] [Footnote N78: Hooper, Tents, etc. p. 276.] [Footnote N79: Ibid., p. 273.] The name Itkû´dlĭñ, of which I´t-ka-lyi of Dr. Simpson appears to be the plural, is a generic word for an Indian, and is undoubtedly the same as the Greenland word erĸileĸ--plural erĸigdlit--which means a fabulous “inlander” with a face like a dog. “They are martial spirits and inhuman foes to mankind; however, they only inhabit the east side of the land.”[N80] Dr. Rink[N81] has already pointed out that this name is in use as far as the Mackenzie River--for instance, the Indians are called “eert-kai-lee” (Parry), or “it-kagh-lie” (Lyon), at Fury and Hecla Strait; ik-kil-lin (Gilder), at the west shore of Hudson Bay, and “itkρe´le´it” (Petitot) at the Mackenzie. Petitot also gives this word as itkpe´lit in his vocabulary (p. 42). These words, including the term Ingalik, or In-ka-lik, applied by the natives of Norton Sound to the Indians,[N82] and which Mr. Dall was informed meant “children of a louse’s egg,” all appear to be compounds of the word erĸeĸ, a louse egg, and the affix lik. (I suspect erĸileĸ, from the form of its plural, to be a corruption of “erĸiliĸ,” since there is no recognized affix -leĸ in Greenlandic.) [Footnote N80: Crantz, vol. 1, p. 208.] [Footnote N81: Journ. Anthrop. Inst., 1885, p. 244.] [Footnote N82: Dall, Alaska, p. 28 and Contrib., vol. 1, p. 25.] Petitot[N83] gives an interesting tradition in regard to the origin of this name: “La tradition Innok dédaigne de parler ici des Peaux-Rouges. L’áyant fait observer á mon narrateur Aρviuna: ‘Oh!’ me repondait-il, ‘il ne vaut pas la peine d’en parler. Ils naquirent aussi dans l’ouest, sur l’ile du Castor, des larves de nos poux. C’ést pourquoi nous les nommons Itkρe´le´it.’” [Footnote N83: Monographie, p. xxiv.] CONTACT WITH CIVILIZED PEOPLE.