[Journal of the Crocker Land Expedition "Q"], 1913-1914
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much of an Eskimo as any of them. He says he would like to get back to New York, but says also that his health was never good there and he doesn't want to stay there always. It seems very funny to me to suddenly have this man in appearance no different from the ordinary Eskimo suddenly come to me and talk to us in our own language and with us about our our land, - for Coney Island is as familiar to him as Utah x. Tue Dec 2-13 Have been outside nearly all day. Judy, Tank, and I went up over the hill back of Provision Point to read the minimum thermometer up there. It was rather dark for walking but we had no difficulty. Ashkalingual finished my deerskin suketch yesterday. I suppose it is warm, it looks and smells like it. Wed Dec 3-13 Today I wired a light out in front of the house and put a reflector