CHAPTER XX 



GREENLAND REVISITED 



Alone the Labrador Coast-Strange Passengers on the " Falcon "-Holstein- 

 bo^g and Godhavn-The Quickest Passage of Melville Bay-Meeting with 

 Old Friends -No Tidings of VerhoefT- Establishing Ourselves at Bowdoin 

 Bay-Deaths among the Eskimos-A Rich Walrus Hunt-Smith Sound and 

 the Northern Ice-pack- Polaris House- Departure of the " Falcon." 



Anniversary Lodge, Bowdoin Bay, Greenland, August 20, 

 1893. The reader who has followed me through my Arctic 

 experiences of 1891-92 may be interested to know how we 

 found our Eskimo friends upon our return to them after an 

 absence of nearly a year. 



On July 8 the steamship " Falcon," carrying north the mem- 

 bers of Mr. Peary's new Arctic expedition, left Portland, and 

 headed for St. John's, where we landed on the 13th. We had 

 with us a conglomerate cargo, including, in addition to the 

 ordinary paraphernalia of an Arctic expedition, eight little 

 Mexican burros or donkeys, two St. Bernard dogs, the Eskimo 

 dogs which Mr. Peary had brought down from Greenland, and 

 numerous homing pigeons, kindly presented to us by friends 

 interested in the expedition. At St. John's we added a few 



