Expedition craft coming out (79) vessels to meet us. Soon the two [illegible] got free from the ice and the power boat forged ahead into the open water and made toward us. Then we perceived the Expedition Boat that it was not the "George Bird" and as it approached we saw stand- [illegible] ing on the bow a very tall white man, with bare head, whose flowing hair, full beard and skin clad figure gave him the appearance of a old time Norse viking of the olden times. This proved to be Peter Freuchen, the Dane who has charge of the [illegible], North Star Bay station of the Cap York Committee, which is the trading and scientific organization whose head is Knud Rasmussen the famous Greenland explorer