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Herschel Island on April 16, bringing the news that Stefansson and his 

 two sailor companions, Storkcr Storkerson and Ole Andreasen, were 

 going ahead fifteen days' more travel before attempting to return, with 

 the possibility of trying to push across the ice to Banks Island in case 

 conditions were favorable. As there were a much greater number of 

 vessels and people than usual located at frequent intervals along the 

 coast from Herschel Island west to Point Barrow that season, the party 

 would have been soon heard from if they had returned to the mainland 

 in the spring or summer. 



The schooner Mary Sachs, under command of George H. Wilkins, 

 with a full equipment of provisions, distillate, oil, etc., for two years 

 or more, sledges, dogs, and a large gasoline launch, started from Herschel 

 Island for Banks Island on August 11, and as we learned in the fol- 

 lowing spring, met Stefansson's party near Cape Kellett early in Sep- 

 tember, very soon after the vessel reached Banks Island. Of course 

 no word of this could reach the outside world until over a year later, 

 causing considerable anxiety. The three men of the ice party were 

 generally supposed to have been lost. 



The schooners Alaska and North Star sailed east from Herschel 

 Island August 17, 1914. The Alaska anchored in Bernard Harbor, 

 Dolphin and Union Strait, the evening of August 24, and the North Star 

 August 25. We had smooth sailing on summer seas east of Baillie 

 Island, free from ice except for a little loose bay-ice -in Dolphin and 

 Union Strait. 



At Baillie Island we had met the little gasoline schooner Teddy Bear, 

 going out under sail after spending five years in the Arctic. This 

 vessel, which I had formerly met in Coronation Gulf in 1911, was the 

 first pioneer trading vessel to come in east of Cape Parry. The Teddy 

 Bear was commanded, engineered, and sailed by a young French-Cana- 

 dian named Joseph F. Bernard,* a native of Tignish, Prince Edward 

 Island. Of the five winters of this voyage he had spent one in a 

 harbor on the south side of Dolphin and Union Strait, about sixteen 

 miles south of Listen and Sutton Islands. This harbor in Dolphin and 

 Union Strait, being the first good harbor for nearly 200 miles east of 

 Pierce Point, was used as a base for two years, 1914-16, by the Southern 

 section of the Canadian Arctic Expedition and named by us Bernard 

 Harbor, partly in honor of Captain Bernard's pioneer energy in dis- 

 covering its suitability and using it as a ship station and in recognition 

 of his unusual kindness and rectitude as a pioneer of trade in an un- 

 civilized and unexploited land.** 



Bernard Harbor was chosen by us for its strategic advantages for 



* For various references to Captain J. F. Bernard, see index of "My Life 

 With the Eskimo." Our Captain Peter Bernard was his uncle. 



** This harbor was discovered but not sounded or otherwise examined, b}^ 

 Stefansson and Natkusiak in May, 1910. 



