903 - [ESKIMOS]. FREUCHEN, Peter (1886–1957), Danish explorer, anthropologist, journalist, and writer.

[ESKIMOS]. FREUCHEN, Peter (1886–1957), Danish explorer, anthropologist, journalist, and writer. Manuscript. 12½ pp. on 13 leaves, in-4. No place [Paris], no date. Slight water stain on one corner; pinhole. Black ink on pelure paper. French translation of the account of the love story between explorer Peter Freuchen and his first wife, the Inuit woman Mequpaluk. This unfinished handwritten translation is titled “My Love Story with an Eskimo Woman at the North Pole.” In it, he recounts his love story with a young Eskimo woman during his long stay at the North Pole. Deletions and corrections. The manuscript is divided into 6 chapters: First Steps / The Beginning of a Marriage / A Child Destined for Greatness / In Danger / The First Son / Pain [these are the last words of the manuscript]. A beautiful account of the explorer’s encounter with a young Inuit woman named Mequpaluk, or Navarana Mequpaluk, with whom he had two children. Mequpaluk accompanied Freuchen on several expeditions and died in 1921 during the Spanish flu pandemic. She had two children with the explorer (a boy named Mequsaq Avatar Igimaqssusuktoranguapaluk and a girl named Pipaluk Jette Tukuminguaq Kasaluk Palika Hager). Knud Rasmussen (1879–1933), “the very faithful friend of our household,” as Freuchen describes him here, would later use the name Navarana for the role inspired by her in the film *Palos Brudefærd*, shot in eastern Greenland in 1933.