The Washington herald., 1913-06-22
Trip to Far North, Planned by
George Borup, to be I'm
dertaken by Donald B.
Macmillan.

The Crocker Land expedition. to the
| north polar regions. which was sched-
uled to start in July. 1912. and which
was postponed on account Of the death
of Its leader, George Borup, who was
drowned In Long Island Sound, just of
Crescent Beach, Conn, on April g, 1872.
will leave New York on the steam
whaler Diana on or about July 2 1913,
says a writer in the New York Evening
Post. At a meeting of the executive
committee of the board of trustees of
the American Natural History Museum
held on May Is, 1919. 1t was resolved that
the expedition should not be given up,
and that it should be memorial to Mr..
Borup, who had been keenly interested
in it, and who was the smainspring of
the entire undertaking.
When the reorganization of the expe-
dition was taken up last fall. Donald b.
Macmillan was made its leader. The
objects of the expedition are:
To map the coast line and explore
Croker Land, the mountainous tops of
which were seen across the Polar Sea by
Rear Admiral Peary in 1906. To search
for other lands in the UNEMPLOYED west
and southwest OF Axel Heiberg Land
and north of the Parry Islands.
To penetrate into the interior Of Green
land at its widest part, between the
seventy-seventh and seventy-eighth par
allels OF north latitude, studying metero-
logical and psychological conditions on
the summit of the great ice cap.
The expedition plans to study the
geology. geography, glaciology, meteor
ology. terrestrial magnetism, electrical
phenomena, seismology, zoology (both
vertebrate and invertebrate). botany.
oceanography. ethnology, and archae-
tkA A~t1
which is to be traverSed. all of II lying
above the seventy-seyenth parallel.
Traditions of the Eskimos.
The verification of the traditions Of
the Eskimos, of the reports of Capts
Mcclure and Keenan,, of the theories of
DIR. r. A. Harris. the tidal expert. and
of Rear Admiral Peary's discovery, 1t is
announced, is left as the last great geo.
graphical problem Of the North.
Capt. Richardson, in his work entitled
The Polar Regions" says:
THE Eskimos Of Point Barrow have
tradition. reported by Mr.. Simpson, sur
geon of the Piover lin 1922. of some of
their tribe having been carried to the
north on ice broken up in a southerly
gale. and arriving. after many nights, at
billy country inhabited by people like
themselves. speaking the Eskimo Ian
After long stay, one spring in which
the ice remained without movement they
returned without mishap TO their own
country and reported their adventures.
An obscure indication of land to
the north was actually perceived from
the masthead of the Plover when of
Point Barrow
In 1850 Capt. Mcclure. when on the
northern coast of Alaska. wrote in his
journal that, judging from the character
of the ice and light shady tint in the
sky, there must be land TO the north of
him.
To quote from an article in the Ma
tion7l Geographic Magazine. 1894. An
Undiscovered Island of the Northern
Coast OF Alaska" by Marcus Baker: 1T
is often told that natives wintering be-
tween Harrison and Camden Bays have
seen land to the north in the bright.
clear days OF spring. In the winter of
lsss-1sS7. Uzharen. an enterprising Es-
kimo, of Ootkesrie. was very anxious for
following summer. with is family, canoe,
and outfit. 10 the northeast as far as the
ship went and then he would try to find
this mysterious land Of which he had
heard so much, but no one cared to
bother with this venturesome Eskimo ex-
plorer.''
Capt. Keenan,, Report.
The only report OF land having been
seen by civilized man in this vicinity
was made by Capt. John Keenan,. of