New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-07
Explorer at Etah Await
ing Relief Ship, His
Letters Say.
l.1O0-MILE TRIP MADE
TO ELLESMERE LAND
Expedition to King Christian
Land Abandoned for More I'M
portant One, Writer Reveals.

Letters received yesterday at the
! American Museum of Natural History
from the Donald B. Macmillan expedi'
/ ton that went into the frozen north
/ in 1913 in search Of Peary's vanished
! Crockerland, report the safety of all
the party. Writing from Etah, NORTH
/ Greenland, April last, Macmillan SAID
that they were looking for the arrival
of the relief ship Cluett, commanded
by DR.. f. 0. Hovey, which left Labra'
dor July &c, and was expected to bring
tho party back during October
These letters, forwarded from Den
mark, were accompanied by one from
Knud Rasmussen, the Danish explorer
saving that the Cluett's motor had
failed in the ice pack and the vessel
probably would not return before neX'
summer. Rasmussen has given orders
TO his boat. the Kap-York, which has
been having similar trouble in the
came waters, to give aid TO the Cluett'
Even if the Cluett, on account OF the
late season. would be obliged to winter
at Etah, you need not be ANXIOUS
writes Rasmussen, "snd beg you TO De
( convinced that Mr.. Freuchen my cap
/ tain will do his best to De OF ara W
members of the expedition, whenever
| il will be required.
Boat Sent After Expedition.
4 "Captain Freuchen has sent ms
motor boat TO Etah in order 10 fetcn
| the members Of the Crockcrland ex-
nedition. The Kap-York, however, being
obliged TO 90 southwark only BY SANS
! bpd first 10 be tugged out of the mar
| nor before our motor boat could De
sent northward, and so we have had no
] recent news from your expedition since
/ the Kap-York left"
Macmillan gave up his projected ek-
pedition to King Christian Land 10
! permit of a 1,100-mile trip eyer EleS
mere Land by W. Elmer Ekblaw' geo. g3
ogist and botanist Of the party lne
! remaining members Of the party were
/ busying themselves during April WIN
establishing food stations-cacnes-lot
| Ekblaw's return through Kane BASIN.
The coolest winter WITHIN the Hiein
orv of the oldest Esquimaus' troze pom
of Maurice c. Tanquary's great toes'
but Macmillan says that me doctoI
hopes that sn operation VIII not pe
necessary" MacMillan's letter III part
follows: rl .o,ls
~ tba Furonean wars and the terrible
loss of life. Although everything must
he ouiat now. vet we realize that az
fairs at home must be very unsettled
making il hard to get ship 10 trahs-
port the expedition 10 America
Anxious to Get Home.
NATURALLY, the boys are very anx-
jous to get home, and would be mucn
Astronomical if a ship failed TO arrive,
but II such should happen do not De
bit alarmed over our safety.
al considered Ek's (Ekblaw's trip
through Ellesmere Land so important
geologically that | turned the equip
ment of the whole expedition over TO
him, gave him my dog team when Is
one of the best up here; gave him my
man F-took-ah-shoo, and fitted him out
with everything that a man could pos,
siblv need He is mach better fitted
! than Green and | were last year. lie
loft about twelve days ago, and should
| be back about June 1. | hoped to pick
M another team and get away on
| trip. but that will be impossible. with
| in the memory of the oldest Esquimos
| there has never been such year. The
| Esouimaus have eaten their dogs. as the
/ only food available, and burned their
/ sledges for fuel. II is possible 70
I sledge even to Cary Islands, something
which has never been done. -,
"Have Just returned from PeteravlS
with a skeleton team Of thirteen dogs;
no meat for love or money. In trying
| 10 get my team in shape for Elk we
Maid as high as FIVE gallons Of oil for
a single fipper Of walrus; ordinarily
J this would buy a whole one
/ To Put In Six Caches.
"All nv efforts now are being direct
cd 70 getting Elk back safe. Will put
| in caches Mt six different points on
! the Greenland coast, the last being al
| Cane Constitution, 225 miles north Of
| here. In a short time seals will be up
on the ice, furnishing food for our
selves and dogs.
"The health of the party up TO date
Is, OF course, of the highest interest 70
4 YOU. Green started out TO cross the
/ channel to go to our big cache III
Hayes Sound, and broke down com
pletely He returned, went to bed, was
put on diet by the doctor. lie IS
apparently all right now. but not mt foi
a trip for some time. Allen is now IN
good health.
"Tf a ship reaches US and Ekblav
does not remain with me. | may be
landed over in Jones Sound with one
Fsouimau. Here | shall remain one
wear for chronological work and sledgt
from here 20 the northern coast Of
America. MAJ On
Ekblaw's letter, written March 20
! lust on the eve of his departure or
The Ellesmere Land trip with the ad
vent of the midnight sun, says that he
is in the best of health, has the best
dog team and equipment he has yet
seen, and gives details Of the projected
trip. lie has not been heard from
| since. MacMillan's letter having beer
written a fortnight later.
The other members Of the party, DIR
/ Harrison J. Hunt, Jerome Lee Allen ant
Jot Small. are in good health and vii
I .a,,,,, with tho Cluptt when she break