Pond’s Inlet, where two lone white men battled for a kingdom of ice and snow.

trading post ashore and spend the
winter trading guns and other things
for their furs. Since these people
seemed much richer than Jen, and
offered more for the loan of their
women, they transferred their affec-
tions to the newcomers. Life was
really getting interesting!

From the moment of the Albert's
arrival Captain Janes had become a
changed man. The smile had left his
predatory visage to be replaced by a
look of haunting fury, while his
strident tones arose frequently in
angry vituperation. Friendly Eskimos,
anxious to help, were shouldered
aside with wrathful looks as he eyed
the progress of the opposition post
and watched boatload after boatload
of goods discharged there. Quick to
sense the change, the Eskimos re-
marked that the man with the flaming
hair and narrow eyes seemed angry.
Others told of hearing him arguing
loudly with Florence and the captain
of the Albert. Yet, they wondered,
what had these white men to quarrel
about since each was surrounded by
all this wealth of goods?

When the ships disappeared beyond
the ice-flecked horizon there stood
on the bleak shore of Pond’s Inlet,
3,500 miles north of New York City—
in the very shadow of the Pole itself—
two puny shacks. One belonged to the
Arctic Gold Company, with Florence
in charge, while, half a mile away,
there arose the consummation of
Captain Janes’ long dream.

Arctic darkness descended at last

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for its winter hibernation. Biting cold
sealed ponds and lakes in an iron
erasp, fringing the salt bay with an
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Janes’ earlier trip aboard the Gov-
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with frequent quarrels and bitter mis-
understandings with the captain. On
the point of departure with the Kite
he’d quarreled with his backer, Joe
Baraga, at St. John’s. Then, to add to
the disagreement, he’d run up un-
authorized bills along the Labrador
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them to Baraga.

Wanted to be Uncrowned King

Janes had figured on having this
frigid kingdom for his own, to be the
uncrowned king of these shaggy
Igluliks with nobody to contest his
rule. As the dark days dragged by the

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