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expedition, and Mr. Noice was one of these.

For the next two years the story of Mr. Noice's travels on sea and
land is a part of the narrative of our expedition as published in "The Friendly
Arctic" and as preserved in documents in the archives of the Canadian Government.

The autumn of 1917 the last sub-section of our expedition was
trying to extricate itself from the Arctic and get south. Arrived at Cape
Bathurst in August, we found ourselves in possession of two ships, the Polar
Bear and the Challenge. Only one of these was needed for the voyage out and the
expense of bringing the other south seemed appeared hardly justified, for her market value
in southern waters would be little or nothing. Mr. Noice was now able to form
a partnership with several others and came to me with the request that he be
discharged at Cape Bathurst and, with his associates, allowed to purchase the
Challenge. The arrangements were made and Mr. Noice's connection with our
expedition was severed.

Ice conditions prevented our getting farther towards the south
than the north coast of Alaska that season, and we spent the winter of 1917-1918
carrying on exploratory work exploring in the Beaufort Sea to the northward. That season
Mr. Noice and the Challenge sailed east, wintering at Pierce Point. The ship
was lost and the party proceeded without her the following year for Coronation
Gulf. The partnership had been was dissolved, but Mr. Noice spent the years 1918-
1921 among the natives and traders of Coronation Gulf. He arrived in returned to the United
States the autumn of 1921.

The spring of 1922 Mr. Noice arrived in came to New York with a large
ethnological collection from the Eskimos of Coronation Gulf which he hoped to
sell for enough money to spend in support him in New York a year or two while he was writing up
the story of his adventures. I had told him that I thought he could sell the
collections advantageously for a fair price, perhaps to the American Museum of Natural History
or to Mr. Heye's Museum of the American Indian, and I did all in my power toward