HOME! 
outfit, traps and guns, but, I believe, he would 
have gladly returned with us, for it was a 
wistful farewell he made, and an Esquimo's 
farewell is usually very barren of pathos. 
Mr. Whitney transferred his augmented 
equipment to the Jeanie^ intending to remain 
with her down the Labrador, for her Captain 
had agreed to use every effort to help Mr. 
Whitney secure at least one polar bear. 
Cape York was reached on the morning of 
August 25, and from the two Esquimo fam- 
ilies, hving at the extreme point of the Cape, 
we obtained the mail which had been left there 
by Captain Adams of the Dundee WhaUng 
Fleet Morning Star. Our letters, although 
they bore no more recent a date than that of 
March 23, 1909, were eagerly read. 
At Cape York we landed the last of the 
Esquimos. The decks were now cleared. 
The boats were securely lashed in their davits, 
and nine a, m., August 26, in a gale of wind, 
the Roosevelt put out to sea, homeward-bound, 
but not yet out of danger, for the gale in- 
creased so considerably that the Roosevelt 
was forced to lay to under reefed fore- 
sail, in the lee of the middle pack, until the 
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