Greenland Journal IV 1916-1917
Page 102
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Etah (88) if one came at all. Landed our stuff at once and at high tide "Inger Pis" was run over to a place on the beach where she could be sheathed at low tide. Mac gave me my choice of rooms aside from his - Jot has been in the other front room for three years and has fixed up workbench etc, hence I did not want to disturb him. Et's room faces southeast and is lights and sunny now, but is cold and windy. By Et's advice as well as Mac's I took Dr. Hunt's old room in the northwest corner, as being much the warmest sleeping room in the house. Mi-mi has been living in it, but she is clean and she moved out to a topic during the day. Went over foxskin matter again and Mac finally admitted that the first skins which he got were not obtained for "specimens", not being able to deny that he had left mi- structions with Jot, when he left for Crocker Land in February, 1914, to send them to Freeport. I called Mac's attention to the fact that he had the written instructions applied to all the foxskins. He said that later he realized that this position was untenable, although he had traded for them with his own material [the boys however say that he used expedition stuff too] and that there were not more than 30 or 40 skins then anyhow [this does not seem to agree with Allen's statements of greater num- ber, and he sealed up the boxes]. I wanted to go through the boxes to-day or tomorrow and select the fifty skins that I have proposed to keep for the museum and then turn the remainder over to Mr. Rasmussen, but Mac refuses to have anything more to do with foxskins, saying that he has done his level best to get together a fine series of them and now I am upsetting the whole business [See pp. 60-63 of this book]