Mr. Koch is a young Danish geologist, nephew of Captain Koch who made the Traverse of the Greenland Ice cap in 1913 (?), whom Mr. Rasmussen brought with him to map the coast line of Melville Bay and to map and study the geology of Peary Land, it having been Mr. R.'s intention to visit the northernmost land on the globe in the summer of 1916. Tobias Gabrielsen is a south Greenlanders of note, having been a valuable member of the important Danish expedition that explored and mapped a large portion of the east coast of Greenland in (?). There was much to talk about, but we broke off our conversation about 2 a.m. and turned in again, though the excitement of the meeting kept sleep from my eyes for several hours. Influenced by Mr. Rasmussen's opinion regarding the unsafe position situation of the "Cluett" in Parker Snow Bay and the supposed certainty of the coming of the new relief ship for the Crocker Land Expedition, I decided to embrace the opportunity offered by his presence with six empty kahmooties to transfer Captain Corner and myself and our most important effects to Thule. Furthermore Mr. Rasmussen assured me that his little schooner "Kap York" would be at North Star Bay at the end of August or the beginning