task of running the engine (66 alone, in view of his almost total unfamiliarity with it. Egingwah badu made a new kite stem for me out of a piece of walrus ivory. 24 August. Thursday. Overcast. High S.S. wind(7-8) continued all last night, to-day and until midnight. Temp. 8a. 42°; 12m. 44½°; 4p. 43°; 8p. 42° Peter is very ill with the grippe. At Etah he was miserable, the attack having begun apparently the day before our arrival, and he staid in his bunk all the way back to N.S.B. He has eaten practically nothing for a week and his temperature has been from 102 to 103.5 or 104/ the whole time. Seven of the Eskimos and Jot Small went across the fjord on