[Journal of the Crocker Land Expedition "Q"], 1913-1914
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work going on we are using a great deal of light. The batteries show a markedly greater efficiency now that they are in a warm locker. About 3 p.m. four komeleki arrived and there was great ex- itement for a while. The arrivals were Ek Kndlukts and sooner and baby, Oblanya, Itookashu and busted Klayzhu and mother, and Hendrick Ohlsen - an educated south Greenland eskimo who is in the employ of Rasmussen. Ek says Rasmussen treated him with splendid hospitality, and went with him to get a piece of the meteorite below Cape York. Ohlsen was educated in Denmark and speaks no English, so Ek is the only one of us who can talk with him, except in our broken eskimo. Some of our men took more provisions for the Crocker Land trip up to Littleton Island today, and brought back a few loads of oil from the point.