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graphs such as of Humboldt Glacier. I am 
confident that there are many records at 
Kane’s winter quarters at Rensselear Harbor. 
We shall also do bird work one hundred and 
thirty miles south of Etah on Saunders 
Island, one of the most interesting spots of 
the world to the ornithologist. 
We are mainly O. K. in health. Green 
and Allen? built a little shack last fall for 
wireless at one of the islands in the outer 
harbor. Conditions out there were so favor- 
able for reading and study that they preferred 
to remain through the winter, both claiming 
they had lots of work to do and that was 
the place to do it. When they came into the 
house however the first of February, both 
were in poor health. Later Green started 
out to cross the channel to go to our big 
cache in Hayes Sound and broke down com- 
pletely. He returned, went to bed and was 
put on a diet under doctor’s orders. He is 
apparently all right now but not yet fit for a 
long trip. Allen is wholly recovered. Tan- 
quary ? had the misfortune to freeze both big 
toes on his Melville Bay trip during the 
winter. The doctor hopes that an operation 
will not be necessary. If a ship reaches us 
and Ekblaw does not stay with me, I may be 
landed over in Jones Sound with one Eskimo. 
Here I shall remain one year for ethnological 
work, and sledge from here to the northern 
coast of America. 
Mr. W. Elmer Ekblaw writes on 
March 20, 1915, also from Etah, as 
follows: 
On the eve of my departure on a trip across 
Ellesmere Land and back across Grant and 
Grinnell lands by way of Greely Fjord and 
Lake Hazen, I am writing you briefly of my 
hopes and plans. Since last winter I have 
been arranging to take this trip this spring. 
I shall leave to-morrow fully and splendidly 
equipped, not able to think of a single addi- 
tional article or preparation which would 
further insure my safety and success. I 
have the best sledge we have yet made; I 
have a fine team of dogs; my clothes are all 
first-class; I have all the food and fuel I can 
1 Ensign Fitzhugh Green, engineer and physi- 
cist; Mr. Jerome Lee Allen, electrician and wire- 
less operator. 
2 Mr. Maurice C. Tanquary, zodlogist. 
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carry; I am in the best of health and best 
condition for Arctic work; I have two of the 
best men in the tribe, Esayoo and Etukashoo, 
to accompany me. I can conceive of nothing 
except a most untoward accident that could 
prevent the successful execution of my plans 
and my safe return. 
I shall proceed leisurely enough to tal.e 
advantage of every likelihood of scientific 
investigation; to hunt food for dogs and 
ourselves in every favorable locality; to 
explore the unknown reaches of Greely 
Fjord. JI am depending so largely upon the 
game of the country over which we travel for 
the chief food supply, that I am taking 
across the Ellesmere Land glacier but twelve 
days’ pemmican. I feel that I am quite 
justified in doing so, for on a 1100-mile 
circuitous route, it is impossible to carry 
food for the entire way. 
I expect to study the geology of Bay 
Fjord very carefully. The Eskimo tell me 
of numerous coal seams of great thickness and 
rocks rich in fossils. Green saw a coal seam 
eighteen feet thick on his trip of last year, 
and from the point from which I was forced 
to return I saw great ledges and cliffs of lime- 
stones, shales and sandstones. The physiog- 
raphy, structural geology, and I hope pale- 
ontological and stratigraphical geology will 
merit all the attention I can give them. 
The early part of my trip will of necessity 
be confined largely to geology, for the snow 
covers the vegetation and no birds have yet 
arrived. From the first of May onward, 
I expect to get some work in botany and 
ornithology. I find that I have more than 
one hundred and ten different species of 
plants in the collections I made last year. 
I wish to say of Tanquary, who had an 
unfortunate trip on Melville Bay, that he is 
made of the stuff heroes grow from, and that 
for sheer grit, unfailing good nature, and 
cheerfulness in pain, he measures up to the 
highest. The Universities of Illinois and 
Harvard may well be proud of him. oa) 
It is possible that I may remain in the 
North another year after this season, if it 
seems that the results which I can reasonably 
expect to achieve would justify my doing so. 
Two good fields of work in botany tempt me— 
that about the valley of the Mary Minturn 
River, and the other at Kaugerdluksuah, at 
the head of Inglefield Gulf. 
