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Amundsen there had been in Coronation Gulf only two ships, both
of the British Navy and both about the middle of the 19th century -
the Enterprise and the Investigator.

Towards the end of my 1908-12 expedition Captain
Bernard gave us a good deal of assistance, especially in the
year 1911 when he brought my assistant, Dr. Anderson, from Corona-
tion Gulf to Cape Bathurst and also a large part of my ethnological
collections of that expedition, which are now partly in the Ameri-
can Museum of Natural History of New York and part of them in the
Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.

As you see from the various references to Joseph
Bernard in my two books, he has at several times since been in
contact with our expeditions. It is especially interesting,
therefore, that he should be the man to undertake our work for
us this year.

Mr. A. J. T. Taylor,
Credit Foncier Building,
Vancouver, B. C.