Field note book[s], Crocker Land Expedition, 1913-1915
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at Cape York about 1901. the men were all dead. The Coshinos went aboard after word and soon a disease broke out among them many died. This may have been typhus or the influenza while Peary and his Eskimoes laid at Cape Sabine. Sunday, Nov. 7th The tent is a banging and sc rattling in the wind. The Eskimos all get away before the wind began to blow so we are huddled. 9 P.M. Smuglet it best to move in Myad's igloo as he is gone. Peter was called to us about all in general about nothing. He had persuaded E-Both- ch-toro to go to Unanah but I got hold of him and fairly ordered him back to Annotah as I must