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supply. They had been incited to more vigorous search 

 by the promise of a Hberal reward to the finder by 

 Knud Rasmussen, the Danish explorer, who maintains 

 a trading-station at North Star Bay. 



Under the incentive of this promised reward, Kood- 

 looktoo, one of Peary's boys, had found the great ingot. 



Our party heard of the discovery of the meteorite 

 almost as soon as our first visitors came to Borup Lodge, 

 our headquarters; and not long after, Koodlooktoo 

 came himself to tell us more of it. He said that he had 

 found it the preceding summer; while out sealing in 

 his kayak he had landed at the foot of the mountain to 

 hunt hares, and afterward had gone to the top to look 

 for the meteorite, with unexpected success. He had 

 almost fallen over the stone. 



Koodlooktoo exp>ected to return about the 1st of 

 January to his home on Cape Melville, not far from the 

 meteorite, and, since New- Year's day was not far off, 

 Mac told me to begin at once getting my clothing and 

 equipment ready to accompany him when he left. 

 Because I had been out on two short expeditions across 

 Smith Sound early in December, my traveling equip- 

 ment was almost complete and I had learned, in a meas- 

 ure, what to take with me and what to leave behind. 



When the time came to start. Jot, our cook, thinking 

 that I should need a good square meal to sustain me 

 through the first march, scrambled a big panful of eight 

 eider's eggs which I ate in addition to my regular break- 

 fast. Our party set out soon after, but a heavy wind 

 off the land at Cape Alexander drove us back, and we 

 waited until the next day. 



Again Jot cooked a big panful of eggs for me, again 

 we set out, and again the wind drove us back; three 



