The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-09-26
1RcTJC ISLE FOUND
WHITE WITH GEESE
.o.vGE WONDER OF NORTH
] GEr z5T BY EXPLORER.
NJ OVERS AMONG ICE.

L,d-f-5 square lliIlOo
9no with snow are reported by
ioy, .y5 s Macmillan, Arctic explorer,
poI".g ling back to civilization in
mo ,.,.r. schooner Bowdoin, after be-
Is n il.r in the ice for 274 days.
,n.t J~ik is ali isolated trading
Nam van, he coast of Labrador. Mac
En- G:m, ~ message was carried from
i.."T h. courier $50 miles to Battle
|5IS ,or and relayed by cable from
ES no. i,Iand. off the northwestern
foso Il Newfoundland, where the
gS.,d,,a is expected about Sept. Is.
b. dispatch reads: i,
~Fyea the old boat seems to feel
: INV Of motion. No wonder. From
1921. to Aug. |, this year we
II" trozen in solid in a good harbor
- .ontb of Trinity Islands. | nam
a :, sitar the vessel, and the place
~ WIZ pulled in for the winter and
l n,,-.d vast areas. These locations
I: R'J h. known as Bowdoin Harbor on
MAPS OF the future.
Where Winter Was Spent.
4 a0-a made a quick run last summer
j tbF Arctic Circle without encoun-
linz single pan OF ice. The shores
Melville peninsula were blocked
N 5eavy ice. forty feet thick, and
corld get no nearer than thirty
Ia. We had to retreat southwark,
h mr. effort was by no means vast
We discovered two new islands.
sTbjIr attempting the passage north
I'd betwcen Spicer Islands the Bow
n ran aground, and for little while
were in bad pickle. But we work
hard, and succeeded in getting the
eel off before we were hung up
the low water.
1--WE speeded the vessel southwark,
again we encountered difficulties.
were forced by strong tides and
odipjous ice lelds on to shoal ground.
attempting passage east OF Sp1cer
and we reached point $50 miles
III Of the arctic circle. From this
INF 10 Fury and Hecla Strait, my
iective, would only have been a
Five hour run under favorable con-
;ors But the tides were too strong,
the ice barrier was impenetrable.
lain the Bowdoin went aground.
Sails Sixty Miles on Land"
We laid our course southeastward
made some important discoveries
the purpose of photography. Ac-
rdjng to the maps we carried we
buld have struck land on this course,
4 we failed to do so. We sailed over
area indicated as land on all the
EST and most authoritative maps,
indeed, fifteen miles into hypo-
ktical interior.
More strong tide rips and shallow
3 Her forced us to retreat again. we
\ imated that, according to the maps
our possession, we must have sail
+ in the Bowdoin over sixty miles OF
Al this juncture we sighted big
Ids OF wairus, beyond question the
remnant OF the great walrus herds
be found in the north today.
FINALLY we made a harbor called
be Dorchester. 1t was named Z9l
rs ago by an explorer named Fox:
r. we found a large settlement OF
kimos.
The Eskimos asserted that there
+ no safe winter quarters along
coast, and strongly advised us
giye up plans for the establishment
winter quarters near the magnetic
th pole. which | was reluctant to
Take Eskimo's Advice.
We selected the harbor | have
! he'd Bowdoin after the most pains
kng examination of every bay and
along the coast. On November
we we're settled for the winter.
I'VE were not idle at Bowdoin Har-
Under the SUPPLEMENTARY OF
bi5,sor Goddard, of Dartmouth col
and Carnegie institute, we built
magnetic observation of terrestrial
gnetism. We took meteorological
ervations throughout the year. The
Test temperature recorded was on
frees below zero, Fahrenheit. For
months we took tidal observa-
Moreover, my men with dog teams
Reled more than two thousand
+, going north to Cape Dorches-
south and east to Lake Harbor
inward to Amadjaak Lake, a body
water which had never hitherto
explored by white men.
We found the land very different
b the current delineations on the
81 maps. Nearly all points are m
feet, automatically.
The waters OF Chorbak inlet reach
Ply to Fox channel. We discovered
fnd OF uncharted lakes, the breed
place for innumerable ducks, geese,
D and shore birds. Here also lay
M hitherto undiscovered home OF the
er snow goose and the blue goose.
Esklmos gave us vivid descriptions
Rn area of about OBS square miles,
"mtc with geese that the land APP
as If it were covered with snow.
have recorded fifty species OF
and have a good collection OF
SKINS and eggs. Professor Robin
has fine botanical collection OF
y towering arctic plants. We are
smg a collection of rocks Tor the
Fo.og1cal department at Washing
ate in July we began to think OF
r. The ice was breaking. On the
4ag OF August the Bowdoin was
We had fine run through Hud-
STRAIT. Fortunately we escaped a
gale between the 14th and 10th OF
month. We had good weather
the Labrador coast, which was
NeQ with ice as far south as 81
latitude"