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I took charge of the household effects, provisions, etc. While 

 we were thus occupied our boat was seen coming from Five- 

 Glacier Valley. When it had approached near enough for 

 us to distinguish the occupants, we saw there were only two 

 white men in it — Gibson and IMr. Bryant. Gibson told us 

 that they had waited at the appointed place until their pro- 

 visions ga\-e out, and then had taken a scout up the valley 

 for some distance, but had seen no sign of Verhoeff. They 

 left a note for him, intending to return for a further search. 



We now began to feel grave apprehensions regarding the 

 missing man, and a vigorous search was immediately deter- 

 mined upon. Mr. Peary set to work to provision the boat ; 

 then, summoning about him all the native men, who are as 

 expert as our Indians in following a trail, he told them that 

 they must go with him to Five- Glacier Valley and look for 

 Verhoeff, promising a rifle and ammunition to the man who 

 should first discover him. Professor Heilprin then suggested 

 that while Mr. Peary and his men went up McCormick Bay 

 to the mouth of the valley, he and his party should go round 

 in the "Kite" to the head of the valley in Robertson Bay; 

 and it was so decided, and the Eskimos were divided between 

 the two parties. I remained at Redcliffe with Matt and the 

 native women and children. 



At two o'clock the search-parties left, and I turned my 

 attention once more to packing. The women stood around 

 me, devoured with curiosity as to what I would do with all 

 these things, and plying me ^^•ith questions as to whose hus- 



