[Guadeloupe, Saint Vincent, 'Cluett' Voyage] 1915-1916
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"at both anchors" 1/23 out well up in North Star Bay, about two miles from the little settlement known as Umanak, where the Cape York Committee has its Arctic station and Pete lives. We found the deck filled with Eskimo men, women and children and it seemed as if the whole population of Umanak were on board the schooner Captain Pickels in fact told me that nineteen of them had spent most of the time on the vessel during the three days that the "Cluett" had been lying at anchor there and that they were a lazy, good for nothing lot, willing to eat and accept everything that was offered them and to do nothing in return. There was, however, one woman in