There I learned further details as to the movements of Dr.Cook during his sojourn in that region.
At Etah we picked up Harry Whitney, who had spent the winter in that neighborhood in arctic hunting.

Here, also, we killed some seventy-odd walrus for the Eskimos, whom we distributed at their homes whence we had taken them in the previous summer.
They were all as children, yet they had served us well.

They had, at times, tried our tempers and taxed our patience; but after all they had been faithful and efficient.

Moreover, it must not be forgotten that I had known every member of the tribe for nearly a quarter of a century, until I had come to regard them with a kindly and personal interest, which any man must feel with regard to the members of any inferior race who had been accustomed to respect and depend upon him during the greater part of his adult life.

We left them all better supplied with the simple necessities of arctic life than they had ever been before, while those who had participated in the sledge journey and the winter and spring work on the northern shore of Grant Land were really so enriched by our gifts that they assumed the importance and standing of arctic millionaires.