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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