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Captain Comer and one to Dr. St. [87]
from Mac. which was dated 17 Jan.
Captain Comer went out to read the
thermometer, spied the bear in the cache
and rushed back into the house for rifle.
No more coal at Umanuk. Heating with
primus stores. Hendrik brought some
boxes as far as Cafe Dudley Diggs and took
some back from the cache there. Was to
come here for coal, but could not on ac-
count of the big open lead just this side of D. D.
Kolotingwa is one of the ablest of the
Speaks a few words of English.
natives. He was one of Dr. Cook's men and
is one of that man's few friends among
the Eskimos. Went as far as Cafe Thomas
Hubbard with Cook as a supporting party
and then turned back. The next year he
to Jarie.
took Cook across Melville Bay and to
sark, whence Cook went by boat to Upernivik.
Upernivik. K. has a wife & five children
and is a grandfather. He has lost
one child. He is unusually thrifty.