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This is a story about the relationship between me and Knud. Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen (June 7, 1879--December 21, 1933) was a Greenlandic polar explorer and anthropologist. Rasmussen was born in Jakobshavn, Greenland. He went on his first expedition in 1902--1904, "The Literature Expedition", with Jørgen Brønlund, Harald Moltke and Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, to examine Inuit culture. In 1910, he and a friend, Peter Freuchen, established the Thule Trading Station at Cape York (Uummannaq), Greenland, as a base. He went on several expeditions between 1912 and 1919, travelling over the Viscount Melville Sound and crossing the Northwest Passage by dogsled.