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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]