"ground and one does not have 25- to stop much to pass thro the entrance which is provided with night-doors. Two rooms, one of wh. is the kitchen wh must be traversed to get into the living room. All scrupulously clean to the universal odor of these Eskim homes is quite noticeable - we had seal meat & coffee. Great friends of kind Bus-misses - Jones got a long ride today 7 May Monday Overcast + threatening Wind S.W. 2 Temp. - 2° R = 27.5° F. Mr Nielsen wld accept no payment for my stay. He is a very intelligent man of 28. Makes good impression & Ek says that he is a fine fellow, has been in Greenland about 5 yrs & is going home next year to get married. Has a considerable library of stan- dard fiction. About 11 o'clock Ek + his companion got away followed in a quarter hour by Jones with me on his kihnootok and Julius Thorleifson with my baggage. Snow had already begun to fall and it increased rapidly in amount and atmosphere was thick. We lost the trail within Jones 11 dogs Julius &