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live at Flaxman are going elsewhere for the winter. Our special anxiety 

 is for the dogs, I now have eleven and our natives twelve more, inclusive of 

 three pups. If the dogs should die, we should be severely handicapped for 

 next year. 



I should have liked to go to Herschel Island now and up to Ft. Macpher- 

 son (a two months' round trip) to meet the winter mail and reply to any 

 letters you may send by it, but as Capt. Wolki will gladly carry our letters 

 to Herschel and as this is the best season to accumulate a little game and fish 

 (before the sun leaves us), I have decided not to pay attention to anything 

 but the problem of making a living. 



If we can subsist near the Colville, as we shall try to do, we shall inci- 

 dentally see a good many of the Colville people probably; if things go 

 exceedingly well, I may even be able to get far enough inland to see most 

 of them. When the days get long I want to make a trip to Baillie Island [off 

 Cape Bathurst] and with open water I expect to visit the Colville people 

 when they gather for trade at the delta \illage of Nirglik [Nigaluk, on the 

 map], while we shall also probably be able to do the much-desired digging 

 on Pingok (the big island off Beechey Point). These are the hopes and 

 plans for the spring. 



It is the intention of Captain Wolki of the " Rosie H. " to winter in Banks 

 Land next year. He says he wdll take us and our gear down there and 

 (weather permitting) will land us where he lands, or elsewhere if we desire. 

 He will wait some time for some of his own incoming supplies at Baillie 

 Island, and will take aboard there anything we have for transportation. 

 We shall therefore gradually take our stuff to his ship this winter and either 

 precede or follow him with our boats to BailUe Island — according to the 

 season and circumstances. Then we shall go to Banks Land, or elsewhere, 

 as seems best. From information secured by natives who were with Cap- 

 tain Mogg in Victoria Land last year, we now know there are people on 

 Banks Land, though none have ever been seen there either by the early 

 English explorers or by whalers coasting along the west shore. 



A second letter written by Mr. Stefansson two days later considers 

 their need of ammunition and like supplies, and closes with the reassuring 

 sentence: "You have, of course, no reason to worry about us; we are 

 pretty well of?." 



Many interesting facts concerning the zoological work of the expedi- 

 tion are given in a letter from Dr. Anderson under date of October 14; 

 while definite information as to plans for the immediate future are 

 stated not only in the letter proper, but also in a postscript under date 

 of October 19. 



