circumstances under which they (2) were made, during his and Rasmussen's sledge trip in the first half of June. Navarana served delicious coffee. The three Danes came back to our house with us and we had some music on the Victrola. They have good taste in music, i.e., Rasmussen and Koch, particularly the latter. Eskblaw has been feeling more or less ill for three weeks, suffering from an attack of the grippe trans- mitted by one of his letters from home, he thinks. Is much better now, but has a badly infected middle finger on the left hand, arising from a slight wound received more than a month ago. Danger of a stiff outer joint as a result. Infection resulted from Very painful handling walrus