14 May, Monday. Overcast + a little rain. 9am snow falling. Wind about Nw, rising. Temp. 8a -11°; 12m -10° A new difficulty has arisen, for now Jonas has backed out and returns to Proven To-day. His ostensible reason is that the tide is most likely to carry out the ice between him and Proven before he can got back from Egllorsuit. This may be true, Ek says, but he thinks that adverse interests have been at work through Jen- son or the catechist. Jenson says that the catechist has butted in and made the trouble. Ek says that the catechist is a meddler but that Jenson is too and perhaps even more so, and that this is only a repetition on a smaller scale thus far, of the trouble that he and Dr Hunt had here in February. Jonas is considered such an Althman that the influences have been brought to bear in an indirect way, says Ek. Now I am throwing back onto Lars and Cornelius to go together + Moses to go to Kangarsuk or Maligataq, with the hope of getting Magnus at Kangarsuk to go with me. Lars is the man who took Dr. Hunt from Suartarkut and is first class, but Cornelius is not good and reliable. Magnus is ok if