INTRODUCTION 7 



expedition had no other debts than those which I had been 

 forced to contract in order to return from the Arctic. 



Many people showed us kindness, and foremost among them 

 Captain Hamlet, U.S.R.C.S., who, as well in the Arctic as in 

 civilization, was more helpful to us than any one. The Danish 

 Consul-General in New York, Mr. Clan, helped me likewise in 





" DUCHESS OF BEDFORD AT VICTORIA, B.C. 



many ways, and without his kind assistance things would not 

 have been easy for me in America. He received the shipments 

 and forwarded them, he paid bills, and attended to all my 

 business in the East while I was in Victoria. The Royal North- 

 West Mounted Police at Herschel Island were kind and 

 helpful, and so was Mr. Drawer at Point Barrow, as well as 

 the captains of the whaling vessels. 



I must mention the school teachers and missionaries along 

 the coast, the people in Nome and along the trail to Fort Gibbon, 

 where I stayed for ten days as the guest of Captain and Mrs. 

 Clifton, in Fairbanks, and Valdez. To enumerate all my kind 

 friends would be impossible, but even if their names are not 



