"with Dr. Tanquam At the house were Lieut. Green, [108] Mr. Ekblaw and Mr. Allen, but Mr. Mac Millan and Jot Smalle were down at Nerke, about 40 miles south of Etah hunting wal- rus for dog food and Dr. Hunt had started up the ice cap only the day before on a three week trip after caribou. The four men at headquarters gave me a hearty welcome, as soon as they recovered from seeing me at all so late as the fifteenth of September, and im- mediately dispatched Noocarhing- one of the Eskimos attached to the expedition. wak for Dr. Hunt's first camp on Brother John's Glacier at the head of Fouke Fjord, in the hope that he might have been delayed for some reason long enough to receive Ekblaw's and my letters.