The Cordova daily times., 1916-08-02
EXPLORERS TELL EXPERIENCES
 IN ARCTIC

Bronzed by wind and weather. but otherwise bearing no signs of his three years stay in the Arctic as a member of the Crocker land expedition under the leadership of Donald M. Macmillan Prof. Maurice c. Tanquary, who re turned to New York day or two ago told of his trip from Etah by dog team and of the. work of the expedition.
 Prof. Tanquary expressed the satis. faction of the members of the expedi- tion at the success which had attend. ed them. While Crocker Land, he said. Is doubtless a myth, the mirages in that vicinity were of such brilliancy that they deceived completely those who were in search of land. and 1t was necessary to see them disappear by approaching them to know that land did not exist.
 By arrangements which were made when we were landed at Etah," said Professor Tanquary. i've were to pur- sue our work for two years, when a relief ship was to come for us. The members of the party were MT. Mac milan. who had charge of the explor- ing work: Ensign Fitzhugh Green, IT. s. N, detailed to assist in expior ation; pr. Harrison J. Hunt. our physician; Mir. W. Elmer Lee Allen. our wire less man. and myself as zoologist. LONG WAIT FOR RELIEF SHIP.
 We were all waiting in Etah, our headquarters. for the relief ship which was to come for us in 1915. When August was past and no ship arrived we gave up all hope of being brought out this year. We found out later that the George B. Cluett, which had been sent for us. had been forced to stop at North Star bay, about one hun dred and fifty miles south of Etah, be- cause her propeller shaft had broken. pr. Edmund o. Hovey, of the museum, was on the Cluett. and he arranged with MT. Peter Freuchen. who has charge of the Danish exploration base at North Star bay, to take him to Etah in a motor boat.
 "On the morning of September 15 when the motor boat arrived in Etah Mir Macmillan had gone south along the shore to hunt for walrus and Dr. Hunt had gone on long trip north after caribou. We certainly were de- lighted to see pr. HOvey and to learn that the ship was SO near. AS it was imperative that we start at once if we wanted to get away before the Ice shut in. those of us who were at Etah got our supplies aboard the motor boat as quickly as possible, leaving Mir Macmillan and Dr. Hunt to look after things in Etah or join us later if they wished
 Twelve hours later we started for the Cluett. The Cluett had brought Captain George Conner, veteran sail or of Hudson bay waters, and a man experienced with ice. We reached North Star bay and the Cluett on Sep tember IF, but could not start from there on account of storm. which held us up two days.
 When we finally did start in the Cluett the ice at Cape York was so bad that we could not put through. and anchored in an extremely pre- carious position, under the shadow of tall cliff, at the entrance on Parker Snow bay, and the ship was finally iced there on October l.
 Both Mr. Macmillan and Dr. Hunt visited us there. coming down from Etah by sleds, and it was determined that four of us were to attempt the trip by sled across Melville bay and along the coast of Danish Greenland to Holstenborg. a distance Of about 1900 miles, where we could get the first ship out for Copenhagen.
 The Cluett was so crippled that it could not make the trip north to Etah.
 We finally decided to take eight sledges. drawn by nearly one hundred dogs, and the party was to be com posed Of Dr. Hovey. MT. Allen, Ensign Green and myself. We left Parker Snow bay on January 16, and made Cape York the first day The cold was terrific and Dr. Hoyey was so ex- hausted and i'll that he realized that it would be impossible for him to make the trip. Accordingly he turned back l to the ship again, and we went on.