VI 



WORK AT BORUP LODGE 



TITHEN Ekblaw left me in Bay Fiord on March 23d 

 ^^ and returned to Etah with his frosted feet, I 

 gave him instructions for work following his recovery. 

 He was absolutely free to come and go whenever he 

 pleased, and to help himself to any or all of the equip- 

 ment and supplies. He was to plan for whatever work 

 he deemed most valuable for the interests of himself 

 and the expedition. He had concluded that a delinea- 

 tion of the unknown coast-line of Princess Marie Bay 

 offered the greatest inducement for the expenditure of 

 his time and efforts; and in this I had agreed with 

 him. 



To my surprise, I now learned that he and Tanquary 

 had been persuaded by Freuchen, the Danish trader, 

 that his home at North Star Bay was an Arctic paradise, 

 whereupon they had gone south for geological and 

 zoological work, with the intention of returning during 

 the summer in Freuchen's power-boat. 



With the breaking up of the sea ice and the melting 

 of the land snows, our sledging-days were over for about 

 four months. During this warm period we planned 

 work in ornithology, geology, botany, zoology, map- 

 work, and photography. And at the same time we 



