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and ethnologist. Everybody (80
in Northwest Greenland from Cape York
to Anorotok, Eskimos and white men
alike, call Mr. Frenches by his bap-
tismal name, so I soon fell in
with the general usage and address-
ed him as Peter. He is married
to an Eskimo woman, Mavvana
by name, and lives very much
as the Eskimos do. He has lived
He is 34
seven years at Umanak - years old
and is a graduate of the University at Copenhagen.
Peter gave us much news re-
garding the Crocker Land Expedition
staff
and offered to take me in his
power boat, whose name is "Ingerlis",
to Etah and bring back the men
who could go home and as much
as practicable of theirs and the Ex-
bessides a supply of gasoline for the "Chippott"
pedition property. The boat which
the "Ingerlis" was towing out