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.YIACMLLLAN PARTY
OFF TO FAR NORTH
Explorer and Six Followers
Leave on Expedition
TO SEEK LAND OF PROMISE
Batfin Land Declared by Eskimos
as One of the Richest Research
Fields in Frozen North.

WiScaSSet, Me. July 1S.-Donald B.
Macmillan and 5iA adventurous FOL
lowers Sailet. down the Scheepscot
river bound for Bafin Land.
Th..} were cheered by 2OOO friends
and admirers, including Governor BaX-
ter, the explorers claSSmate at BOW
dom College, as the little schooner
H0wduin left the wharf. BoWdolh
College alumni, who are members OF
Tie Macmillan Arctic Association
which financed the enterprise, were
also on hand to give the party a lit
ting Send-Off.
Besides Macmillan, the expedition
includes G. Dawson Howell, of Boston
who has been especially trained for the
work of making observations In ter
restial magnetism for the Carnegie In
stitute. He also will act as operator
Of the Radio apparatus equipped to re-
ceive messages from the outside world,
and to send at short distances. Inc
I,owdoin's call is KTDQ.
DIR. Macmillan said that he expects
IL enter Hudson Bay about August 10.
He will establish winter quarters as
close to Fury and Hecla Strait as the
engines of the Bowdoin can force her
through the ice.
An attempt to map Baftin Land. the
vast Arctic island southwest of Green
land, whose 1900 miles of unexplored
western cOastline is as much mystery
today as when the English navigator,
William Baftin, announced its discoV-
cry in 1916, is the main objective OF
ne Macmillan expedition.
The tiny 115-ton schooner Bowdoin
which carries the party north, was
built at East Boothby, Me. She was
named for MacMillan's alma mater,
has auxiliary power and embodies all
the essentials for resisting terrific ice
packs.
The head of the expedition was
peary's chief lieutenant on the latter's
successful dast to the North Pole In
1909. He has made eight voyages into
the Arctic regions. According TO Mac
Millan's plans, he intends to establish
Il camp south of the entrance to the
dangerous Fury and HeNa Straight
where the ships of Captains Parry and
Lyon, seekers of the Northwest pass
age. were blocked century ago. The
location is $50 miles north of the Arc
tic Circle and 700 miles south of EAsh
Greenland It is not far from the
point where MacMillan'S CrOcker Land
expedition passed the four winters OF
fhat sion
the expedition was once reported lost
and two relief expeditions were sent
out for if, but Macmillan finally re-
turned. He announced that Crocker
Land was not land" as was believed
possible by Peary, but an ice mirage
During the winter of 1922 at
temptS will be made to explore the
coast of Baffin Land and the follow
ing summer an effort will made to
GENERATE the interior. where, accord
ing to Eskimo tales, there exists one
of the richest and most alluring fields
of research in the frozen north. The
island is said to have great mineral
and beautiful lakes which have never
been seen by white men.
The region is believed to be an i'm
mense breeding ground for water fowl
whose nesting habits will be the sub
ject of study, while the program of the
scientists of the expedition also calls
for field work in zoology, botany, geol
ogy, MeteOrology and terrestrial mag
netism. Special observations will be
taken of the magnetic pole which was
located first by James Ross in 1880 OF
the further side of the BOothia PENN
sula, not far from MacMillan's propos
nd MI