Stringer seems to have got on well with the whaling captains. When he first arrived on Herschel Island, he was invited aboard ship and enjoyed such amenities as a comfortable bed and hot baths.

The captains were no doubt glad of Stringer's mollifying influence upon their often unruly crews.

Stringer was able to persuade most of the whaling captains to sign an undertaking to stop trading liquor with the Inuvialuit...