440 he was terribly distressed, for, as he told me, he had supplied them at what they had cost him. He could not under- stand the mental and moral attitude of a man who, like the captain, would take advantage of men dependent on him through no fault of their own amid hardships brought onto them. Peter felt so badly about this, especially on account of his having any connection whatever with the transactions, that he said when he went away last Thursday that he was going to send some tobacco over as a gift to the crew. He refused to sell any of his scanty stock to H.C.P., because the latter would use it in trade with the Es- kimos. In making payment for the clothing, H.C.P. used kerosene oil, charg- ing Peter $10 for a barrel of it. By En- glish and American laws, the cap- tain of a vessel is allowed to charge an advance of only 5% on the cost.