iv PREFACE 



"The Friendly Arctic" (New York and London, 192 1). 

 A comparison of that book with the earlier one will bring 

 out few serious contradictions of fact (I hope none), 

 although it will show a changed point of view — but only, 

 I think, in line with a logical development founded on 

 better understanding. 



In the present book I have tried by means of diaries 

 and memory to go back to the vivid impressions of my 

 first year among the Eskimos for the story of what I 

 saw and heard. I have tried to tell the story as 

 I would have told it then, except that the mature knowl- 

 edge of ten succeeding years has been used to eliminate 

 early faults of observation and conclusion. A good many 

 interesting stories found in the diaries of my first arctic 

 voyage do not appear in this book because I now know 

 them to have been based on misapprehensions. In a 

 sense, the book is therefore less interesting than if I had 

 published it fourteen years ago — but less interesting only 

 to the extent in which it is more true. 



The scientific collections made on the expedition 

 described in this book are now in the Peabody Museum 

 of Harvard University and in the Royal Ontario Museum 

 of the University of Toronto, for those institutions joined 

 in meeting the expense of my journey down the Mac- 

 kenzie. The photographs in this volume are used by 

 permission of the Peabody Museum, the American 

 Museum of Natural History of New York, and the De- 

 partments of the Naval Service, Mines, and Colonization 

 of Canada. Single pictures were furnished by personal 

 friends of the author— Harry Anthony, Hawthrrne 

 Daniel and E. M. Kindle. 



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