the gate of the cabin stove has (1/81) lost a piece, and the hole has to be stopped with loose pieces of iron. The old thing is getting feebler day by day. Went out with Captain Corner col- lecting mosses in the two queeches east of Puth- lats igloo. I have my series now for Mr. Streeter 10 July. Monday. C2 This morning clearing to cloudless in afternoon. wind S3 in morning but light and variable in afternoon, calm evening. Temp. min. 33°; 9a.42°; 12m.43°; 4p.42°; 8p. 44° Knud Rasmussen, Peter Freuchen and Laarge Koch, with Harrigan, Boseman & a South Greenland Estimo, arrived about midnight last night from Umanak. I was already asleep but Captain Pickels called me and I got up dressed and talked with the men till 2a.m., then went to bed again and did not go to sleep till about 6 and was awake once more at 8 for all day. Mr. Rasmussen offered to take me and what baggage I needed with me to N.S.P. so that I might await the steamer there. During the watches of the night I thought the whole matter over and decided to accept the offer and to take Captain Corner with me, it being now so late and the Christ being so unmanageable under sail in the ice that it seemed cer- tain that the schooner wld not reach America much if at all in ad- vance of the steamer. Conversa- tion with Captain Corner and Mr. Rasmussen to-day has con-