"Ko-loo-teeng-was has (181) spread the statement along the mid- dle coast that he (K) is going a- cross Melville Bay with me this spring. This is a relief to my mind because Mac sent word to him for me that I wanted him to take the job of getting me to Upernivik in April and I have been get- ting anxious to have K. come in so that arrangements might be perfected. Mac thinks that he is only on his way hither now with Arclio and our supplies from Umeruk and that the party is held up below Cape Alexander by bad ice con- ditions. Noo-kar-ping-wak says that Egingwak suah, Egingwak paluk and Iago (Pingasut) took their wives with them when they went south with Rasmussen, Ekblaw and Hunt. He thinks that Ek went with the smaller Nehitalaho (Harrigan) and not with Egingwak paluk. N. says he does not believe that Peter was able, physically, to go south this winter at all.