the party who displayed en-(124 enough to make a pair of kamiks (seal skin boots) for the captain. We learned later, I am glad to say, from experience as well as from what was told us, that this attitude of the natives was peculiar to North Star Bay, the less efficient people gravitating in Greenland, as elsewhere, to the vicinity of the white man and his trading station. The pickings there are better, and it is easy to get a living, by working on the sym- pathies of the white man and those of the energetic natives who come in on their travels or for purposes of trade. At North Star Bay mat- ters are somewhat aggravated by Peter's open hearted, generous