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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