Friends of Arctic exploration and discovery, with whom I have come incontact, and many whom I know only by letter, have been greatlyinterested in the fact of a colored man being an effective member of aserious Arctic expedition, and going north, not once, but numerous timesduring a period of over twenty years, in a way that showed that he notonly could and did endure all the stress of Arctic conditions and work,but that he evidently found pleasure in the work.