need of to enable him to spend another year of study in the Smith Sound region We ran out of Battle Harbor under power, but, the wind being fair, the engine was shut down as soon as we cleared the land and we bowed along under sail in fine style. He had however scarcely settled down to enjoying this method of progress than great excitement arose near Churn 1) Copy from Guadeloupe 1915 notable beginning on p. 9 of "Cruelt Voyage" & continuing through Martinique 1915 note ble & St Vincent do. — About midnight of the ninth of July I was a- coused from a good sleep and summoned from my boat to welcome Knud Rasmussen, who had arrived by the ice-cap route from North Star Bay, accompanied by Peter Freuchen, Lange Koch and three Eskimos, Nebita Loko, Lango and Tobias. I was particularly glad to see Mr. Rasmussen on account of his international re- putation as the sympathetic student and portrayal of the character and customs of the Greenland Eskimos and on account of the many courtesies he had shown to the Crocker Land Expedition through his scientific and trading station at Thule, North Star Bay.