The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-07-17
FRIENDS CHEER
ASPARTY sails
Two Thousand People Bid Mac
MILAN and Comrades God
Speed as She Leaves.
HEAD OF EXPEDITION
ASSISTANT TO PEARY
When the Latter Made Success
full Dash to the North
Pole in 1909.
(py The Associates Press.l

WISCASsET, Maine. July 16-Donald
IT, Macmillan and six adventurous fol-
lowers sailed down the Sheepscot river
today bound for Baffin Land. They We're
cheered by 1000 friends and admirers,
including Governor Baxter, the explorers
cassmate at Bowdoin college, as the lit
tie schooner Bowdoin left the wharf.
An attempt to map Baffin Land, the
vast Arctic island southwest OF Green
land, whose $500 miles OF unexplored
western coast line is as much mystery
today as when the English navigator
William Baffln, announced its discov-
cry in 1916, is the main objective OF the
Donald y. Macmillan expedition.
The tiny 115-ton schooner Bowdoin,
which carrier the party north, was built
at East Boothbay, Me.
She was named for MacMillan's alma
mater, has auxiliary power and embodies
all the essentials for resisting terrific ice
packs The crew consists of six men.
Tho vessel is Of the Gloucester fisherman
knockabout type, sheathed with iron
wood, 81 feet long, with draught OF
Ia feet. Crude oil engines capable Of
developing so horsepower are included In
her equipment, as wen as 1000 gallons
Of fuel oil and 500 gallons of kerosene.
T'he Bowdoin also carries stores and
provisions sufficient to last her crew two
years.
The head of the expedition was Peary's
chief lieutenant on the latter's successful
dash to the north pole in 1903. lie has
made eight voyages into the Arctic reg
ions. According to MacAfillans plans, he
intends to reach Baffln Lans about Au-
gust is and establish camp south of
the entrance to the dangerous Fury and
JIecla straight where the ships of Cap
tans Perry and Lyon, seekers of the
northwest passage, were blocked CEN
fury ago. The location is 100 miles north
al the Arctic circle and 700 miles south
81 Etah, Greenland. 1t is not far from
the point where MacMillan's Croker
land expedition passed the four winters
81 19l3-14-15 and 16. On that occasion
the expedition was once reported lost and
two relief expeditions were sent out for
ii but Macmillan finally returned. He
announced that Crocker Land was not
land" as believed possible by Peary, but
ali ice mirage.
During the winter of 1922, attempts
win be made to explore the coast of Eaf-
fin Land and the following summer an
effort will be made to penetrate the i'm
terror where according to Eskimo tales,
there exists one of the richest ana most
aliuring fields of research in the frozen
north. The island IS SAID to have great
mineral deposits ana 10 POSSESS AlEi
mountains and beautiful lakes.
The region is believed - he an immense
breeding ground for water fowl, whose
nesting naS.tS wa! the subject Of stody
while the pS.s.A,n q tee ecienusts OF the
rxpedition lsc sails fJ- field work in
zoology, botany, geology, meteorology and
terrestrial magnetism. Special observit-
lions will be taken OF the magnetic pole
which was located first by James Ross
ia 1880 on the further side of the Booshia
peninsula, not far from MacMillan's pro-
POSED winter camp.
An attempt will also be made TO cir
c,tInnavigate Baffin Land. In the event
~ q serious mishap to this Bowdoin, the
party plans TO retreat BY dog sledge to
Fort Churchill, a trading post. at the feet
.of Hudson Bay, and theaqs return to-
civilization by way OF northwestern
Canada.
Macmillan was born in Pravineetown,
Mass, Nov. 10, 1S7a, the son al a Cape
cod sea captain. He was graduated from
4i3owdoin College in 1898 and took up
postgraduate work at Harvard in 1901.
pefore becoming an explorer he was q
teacher and public school principal. IN
ADDITION to accompanying Peary on his
lsst famous trip north. lie was MEM
be~ az the Cabot Labrador expedition in
1910 and as previously referred 70, the
Ioa6er Of the Croker Island expedition
tree years later. In 1911 ana l9l2 ne
iaade chronological studies CT the EsAlmos
Of Labrador. He IS unmarried