New Britain herald., 1917-09-05
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They travelled 10000 miles with sledi

They travelled 10000 miles with sled
 remapped 15O miles of coastline taken by the expedition cover th longest single period over which sucl data have ever been obtained in tn far porth. Additional evidence wa gained of the presence of great ol luminous coal beds, thus proving, said MT. MacMillan, that the region wA1 at one time tropical.
 At the Weehawken freight yards a special car containing the 400 boxed which MT. MacMillan brought frou the north. In it are the skins o1 bears mushox, caraboo, arctic har1 wolves narwhal, seals and arctic birdA Among them are two sets of eggs o1 the knot or robin back snipe (Trino9 Canutus,) Only twice before have th4
 eggs of this been found.
 The base of the expedition was n
 Etah (Mr. MacMillan prefers tha1
 spelling Eta,) in northwestern Green-
 land, only three miles south of thsI
 "furthest north point of 1852, reached in that year by pr. ElishRI
 Kent Kane of the United States navy Relics of the Kane party were foundI by MacMillan frozen in the ice undcrI an old iron pot.
 Many records of other explorerh also were found by the MacNillian| party. In 8 can were found notes left by Peary in 1906. The second of the stars which Peary cut from an Amer- ican flag and left at various points in the north, with the final white stripe on the ice at the north pole, was brought back. As different ex- plorers find the parts of the flag they will be collected at Washington and pieced together once more. Erickson. the Danish explorer brought back thaf first star.
 MacMillan's associates were F'itsl hugh Green, U. s. N., engineer and physicist; W. Elmer Eblaw, geolog!st and botanist; Maurice c. Tanquarv. zoologist; Dr. Harrison J. Hunt. s,;;.. geon; Jerome C. Allen. wireless o.,, ator and electrician, and Jonathu <: Small, mechanic an>i cook. Several Of these mea, wEi did not hear of tho world war until March, 1915, wien the news tr;ckled through the north U a Danish trader 15O miles south Q. their base. are serving alrency with our military forces.
 ''Piblocto:" cried the Eskir.e t. tho party wle, told of tho war in which three-fourths of the world Is partlc1- pattng And translated by MT. Mac -Iillan 1t means run Anuck" or gone cGaIy.''
 MT. MacMillan told of the socialistia form of living of the far north conl- It is not socialistic in poli- tics--for they have no government put in practice. If one man Is hun gry in a village. all men are hungry. < Everything is divided and the law of custom rules.
 With females in the minority, tho socialistic scheme has been carried to great lengths. boy of eight knows the girl he will marry, and there ex- !sts not an Eskimo girl who is not by her thirteenth year. Swapping of wives is the correct procedure among the peoples of the Far North, of Greenland and adjacent islands. A man may have a wife for B month of six weeks, and then trade her to a friend for a like period.
 The Eskimos have all the essen- tial virtues,' said MT. Macmillan. They are kind, fair, never fight, ex- cept for an occasional killing, quite according to their own law, and are honest
 Mr. MacMillan has written in Eng fish about 4,OOO words of the language of the E1skimos of northern Green land. They have no written or sign and the spoken words are slurred over into each other so they are hard to distinguish
 Unusual intelligence exists among all the people and although the girls are married when they can first "chew l boot" they are not lacking in ap- oreciation of finer arts.
 Chewing a boot, the Artic explorer explained, is a process to soften the ,ough hides used for shoes before Q needle can be pushed through. The saliva moistens and makes them pli- able. It is the duty of a wife to pre- pare this leather. For that reason he teeth of the Eskimo women sooa ,re worn of to the RunaR