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THE FIFTH THULE EXPEDITION THE DANISH EXPEDITION TO ARCTIC NORTH-AMERICA UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF KNUD RAMUSSEN [[left margin]] PATRON: H.M. THE KING OF DENMARK COMMITEE: M. IB NYEBOE, C.E., M.A.S.C.E., Chairman. O. B. BĂGGILD, professor in mineralogy at the University of Copenhagen. CHR. ERICHSEN, wholesale-merchant, member of the Maritime & Commercial Court of Copenhagen. ADOLF JENSEN, professor in zoology at the University of Copenhagen. J. P. KOCH, lieutenant-colonel, arctic explorer. C. H. OSTENFELD, professor in botany at the Agricultural College of Copenhagen. THOMAS THOMSEN, inspector at the National Ethnographical Museum, Copenhagen. ------ Address correspondence to : M. IB NYEBOE, acting Chairman of the Fifth Thule Expedition, Raadhuspladsen 37, Copenhagen B. [[End left margin]] [[strikethrough]] COPENHAGEN B.,[[/strikethrough]] Danish Island, off Vansittart Isd. Canada, N.W.T. November 9, I922. Dr. George H. Pepper, Museum of the American Indian, New York, U.S.A. My dear Doctor:_ With the summer mail to Chesterfield I had the great pleasure to receive both your most welcome letter and your valuable monographs viz:"A Stone effigy Pipe from Kentucky" and "A Wooden Image from Kentucky". Allthough when you read these lines a long time will have passed since you posted your letter, I trust you will pardon me for answering and thanking you so late, considerating the not altogether up-to-date means of communication in these regions. It may interest you, perhaps, that I have had a very interesting trip last winter, going with dog-sledge from Repulse Bay via Chesterfield and Yathkyed Lake, where Mr. Rasmussen and I spent the summer among the Padlermiut Eskimo. It is my intention this winter to go to the natives in the neighbourhood
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