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entering the harbor ran ashore. Late in the 
afternoon, however, the rising tide floated her. 
While waiting for the tide, a party of six, I 
among the number, went ashore and visited 
the Danish Missionary settlement estabhshed 
there, the Esquimos acting as our interpreters, 
we being unable to speak Danish and the mis- 
sionaries being unable to speak English. It 
was in North Star Bay that the coal and pro- 
visions from the Jeanie were transferred to 
the Roosevelt, 
Aboard the Jeanie ^ there was a young Es- 
quimo man, Mene, who for the past twelve 
years had lived in New York City, but, over- 
come by a strong desire to live again in his own 
country, had been sent north by his friends 
in the States. He was almost destitute, hav- 
ing positively nothing in the way of an equip- 
ment to enable him to withstand the rigors of 
the country, and was no more fitted for the 
life he was to take up than any boy of eigh- 
teen or twenty would be, for he was but a 
little boy when he first left North Greenland. 
However, Commander Peary ordered that he 
be given a plentiful supply of furs to keep 
him warm, food, ammunition and loading 
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