This morning I showed (222 him Eki's letter giving his desired plans for 1916, with my endorsement on it "approved, subject to authorization by D.B. Mac Millan, Leader." Dated 13 Nov. 1915. I did this trying to prove to Mac that I was not interfering unwarrantably with his prerogatives as leader. I acknowledged that my first instructions to Captain Comer (23.XI.15) might be construed as assuming more than had been decided upon with reference to North Star Bay. But all this was of no use apparently, for it seem- ed evident that he still thought that I had exceeded the Museum's authority in these and other acts. I told him again that the arrange- ments with Mere and with E- gingnah and Shinaho were distinctly tentative and that I had loaned Mere the rifle, not given it to him, on 23.XI. There is no use in talking any of these matters over any further with Mac while we are up here. I am willing to abide by what the Museum may say.