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National Geographic : 1925 Nov
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THE MACMILLAN ARCTIC EXPEDITION RETURNS where there were higher tides and plenty of Eskimo help and equipment. Our trip back, towed by the Bromfield mo torboat, was a pain- I fully slow 25 miles. Now began a te dious delay for a greater tidal range and a struggle to lift the stern of the Bow- doin sufficiently high to substitute our spare propeller. This was finally accom plished in five days by shifting all heavy weights to the bow and placing eight empty casks under the stern. Even then the men were com pelled to work in ice cold water and amid swarms of ravenous mosquitoes ! With interest we examined our o1d propeller, now upon deck. The cause of the injury was appa rent. When endeav oring to salvage the Pearv lifeboat at the time of her ground- IMPROMPTU ESKI ing, we had wound a rope so tightly At Etah new ic around our main Robertson Bay, onl shaft just abaft of bare feet, showing the sg b tha hard to distinguish the stuffing box that costume is much tl the patent gears of dressing of the fight our self-feathering sents a woman. TI propeller had actually the iceberg barrier but te h. tance is Herbert Is burst the. conqueror, helped 1 VVe were away on homeward with the the 19th at full speed to rejoin the Peary, anxiously awaiting us at Godhavn, Disko Island. Early on the morning of the 24 th, after a fine run up the spectacular Greenland coast, we shot around our sister ship and dropped anchor in front of the Governor's house. We were together again. The Peary is a coal burner, and before Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams MO ART ON ONE OF GREENLAND'S RARE SAND BEACHES: IGLOODAIIOUNY e had formed on the harbor. At this spot on y 50 miles farther south, there were footprints of where the Eskimo children had been at play. It is between the Eskimo men and women, since the ie same, but the hourglass or lamp-chimney hair ire (head down) on the left shows that it repre le Bowdoin is anchored in waters made smooth by reefs at the mouth of Robertson Bay. In the dis ;land, near whose shores in 1909 Peary, the Pole his Eskimos hunt winter food before he dashed glad news of his discovery. leaving home I had made arrangements for fuel at some Greenland port, but the Danish officials declared that no coal could be spared at Godhavn. Through wire less communication with Washington, however, the good offices of the Danish Minister, Hon. Constantin Brun, were enlisted and by the time the Bowdoin 497
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