"were looking forward with pleasure [52] to the ensuing winter, because a young physician was coming out from Denmark and bringing his wife on the steamer due within a fort- night or three weeks. [But was there a steamer due? Is not one of the two vessels calling at Upernivik a coasting vessel? Perhaps Rasmussen's vessel is one and the Royal Trading Co's the other. Schröder went home on the "Cap York" in the lat- ter part of September, 1915.] Uper- nivik society was to be gay in the winter of 1915-1916. The Danish carpenter, Schröder by name, who had been building the residence provided for the doctor was to go home after his year's work in the Arctic. The Eskimo population