Roald Amundsen on Netsilingmiut (1908)

Nechilli, the Nechilli Eskimo home and paradise on earth, is situated on the Boothia Isthmus, as already stated. The large Willersted Lake, with its moss-covered banks and its little fragment of a river flowing out into the sea, has borne the name of Nechilli for centuries. Here is the native land of the Nechilli tribe ; on these very banks their fathers and forefathers have hunted from their tents in the light summer nights. Here they ran about while children with their little bows and arrows and shot at small birds, to be able later on to pursue and kill bigger game in hot chase. Here, in their youth, they had accompanied their parents and received much good advice and many a lesson, until in the end they themselves, as husbands and fathers, profiting by this advice and experience, took up in earnest the struggle for existence in the sphere of life allotted to them.