Evening star., 1923-10-09
M'M|LLAN PARTY
IN WINTER HAVEN
Finds Relic of Kane .Expedi-
ton of 70 Years Ago in
North Greenland.
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star
NEW YORK, October 9.-With his
ship, the Bowdoin, frozen fast in the
waters of Smith sound and the ther-
mometer above zero, Capt. Donald
Macmillan, twentieth century arctic
explorer, has settled down to ten
months of arctic winter, mitigated by
radio, motion pictures and other de-
vices undreamed of by his prede-
cessors
This news was conveyed in a radio
message flashed through the static
by Donald Mix. MacMillan's operator,
to Jack Barnsley, radio amateur, at
his station at Prince Rupert, British
Columbia.
Radio has brought the civilized
world to Refuge harbor. the bleak
haven on the north Greenland coast,
where the Macmillan party is
frozen in.
EslSimos Amazed.
I'VE have heard several hundred
amateur stations, some from as far
away as Los Angeles. Mexico and the
Hawaiian Islands," Mix told Barnsley.
THE Eskimos are very much interest
ed in hearing voices from America.
They do not understand how 1t can be
possible. When the news gets abroad
that we have wireless and motion
pictures on the Bowdoin the whole
tribe will be here on moonlight nights
OF November and December"
The party is stringing new an
tenna from the mast of the ship to
the shore cliffs. When it is in opera
tfon they expect to reach many of the
hundreds of Radio Relay League anna
teurs who are listening in nightly tor
work from WNP.
hn ha We
left Refuge Harbor, and will not re-
turn for lis days. In the twilight
of fall MacMillan's Eskimos will hunt
polar bears and reindeer. All MEM
ing in a winter meat supply. They
fihave killed a number of seals, arctic
hares, walrus and ptarmigan.
Details of the trip up and the es-
Refuge Harbor are given by Capt.
Macmillan in the following extensive
dispatch received by Barnsley:
Near Cape Sabine.
1--WE are in Refuge Harbor. north
Greenland, ten miles north of Etah,
our winter quarters in 1913 to 1917.
We have decided to remain here all
winter, as conditions for our scientific
work and sledge travel are most sat
tsfactory. Cape Sabine, where seven
teen men of the Greedy expedition
died of starvation in 1884. is across
only twenty-four miles away. When
the time comes for us to set up the
tablet intrusted to us by the National
Geographic Society of Washington we
can easily cover this distance by dog
team 1t should take six hours.
I'VE have the meat of five walruses
packed away in the rocks already.
The ship is practically unloaded, and
the food packed in boxes on the shore.
The magnetic observatory is nearly
ready for the installation of instru-
ments. Regular observations Will
commence in a few days.
"Here on the west cape of Refuge
Harbor we have found the cairn built
SeyrnIy years ago by the first Ameri-
can arctic explorer. DR.. Elisha Kent
Kane. Here he celebrated his farthest
north in Smith sound by waving a
flag made from his cap lining bound
TO q gun ramrod This flag was found
in 1914 siXty-one years later, under
an iron pot, few miles north OF our
present situation.
Sail From Gedthaab.
"We left Gedthaab, south Green
land, on July 81, after being royalty
entertained by the Danish inhabi-
tants and the native Eskimos. We
encountered head winds at every
stage of the journey northward, but,
fortunately, little ice. The weather
was generally clear, thanks to the
northerly winds, which sweep most
of the ice out of Melville bay and
make the northern trip easier We
followed what the whalers term the
inside passage. laying our course
very close to shore to circumnavi-
gate the pack. We reached Cape
York, &c degrees north latitude, on
August g.
1--WE were very sorry to learn that
many of our native friends were dead,
victims of influenza, which carried
off at least fifth Of all the Smith
sound natives. Several of Peary's
best dog drivers are dead. also many