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ferred to shore at Kellett as an assistant to Captain Bernard. 

 There were altogether thirteen Eskimos, counting men, women^. 

 and children. 



Although he had no official position on the ship, the ranking 

 member of the party and the most important man was Storkerson, 

 whom I took aboard at Kellett with his family. Ole I was unable 

 to indue to stay longer, for he now had sufficient capital to buy a 

 small schooner and start out upon the independent trading opera- 

 tions which he believed were destined to make his fortune. He 

 went out with Captain Lane in the Gladiator and I learned later 

 that he eventually purchased that ship. Thus I lost the man who 

 next to Storkerson was the best ice traveler I have ever known. 



To maintain the reserve base at Kellett Captain Bernard now 

 had with him, besides Knight, Charles Thomsen with his family, 

 and five Eskimos, two men, two women, and a girl of about ten 

 yearsL. 



