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Nodablaho are, from Umanak 1/16
having left there at 11 this morning.
Leads opening off end of Petowik glacier,
Mene brought down two small boxes
netting nine pounds of tobacco, but
it is Battle Ax and Norman and
the chief are greatly disappointed.
Norman has been extremely insulting
in his remarks about it and about
my fancied connection with the
transaction, Norman saying that
I had hindered its coming down,
whereas the contrary is true. He is
a regular trouble maker and seems
to think that everybody is trying to "do"
him - Tobacco sold to Captain Pickels
for $3.15 + credited to Eke's Exped. account.
Captain Pickels told me today that he
had supplies enough for the probable
remainder of the voyage, - among