The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1926-12-16
AMERICAN GIRL BAGS
BIG GAME IN ARCTIC
Tramps Frozen North After
Polar Bears.


London--E Experienced polar hunt
ers DOR their hats to Miss Louise A.
Boyd Of San Rafael, Calf who has
returned to London after six weeks
trip into the Arctic
To Miss Boyd belongs the distlnc-
ton Of having been the first white
woman to set foot upon desolate
Franz Josef Land, to which she made
the voyage on Roald Amundsen's old
supply ship Hobby With Miss Boyd
were Miss Janet Coleman Of San
Francisco and Count and Countess
Riyadavia, friends Of King Alfonso
XIII Of Spain.
From the S0th degree northern lati-
tude Miss Boyd returned with the
pelts Of 20 polar bears. 6 of which
she shot In one day This, it is con-
sidered is enough to turn enyious
any Arctic hunter
Slim, In Short Dress.
There was nothing in the appear
ance of the slim American girl, clad
in modish knee-1ength dress Of black
georgette to suggest tussles with
Arctic beasts. as she sat in the draw
ing room Of West End hotel. tell
lag to the Associated Press a story
Of Arctic exploits which would do
credit to any male blg-game hunter
Miss Boyd chartered the Hobby to
carry her game-shooting party Of four
into the ice fields beyond Spitzbergen.
The Hobby sailed from Tromsoe,
July 20.
Fogs, ice and storms alternated I'M
til August Is, when land was first
sighted. 1t was Bell island, one of
the Franz Josef group. With precau-
ton, the Hobby nosed her way
through leads in the Ice In Nightin-
gale sound by Cape Crowther until
at so degrees 26 minutes the vessel
was forced by an Arctic Ice barrier
to turn back.
The Hobby then skirted Prince
Georges land and the party made
landing at Cape Flora, where a large
stone marked the sojourn OF an earlier
italian geodetic survey expedition.
1.-THE islands here" said Miss Boyd,
with their dome-shaped glacier-cov-
cred mountains were in remarkable
contrast to Spitzbergen's jagged
peaks. But even here the brief Arc
tic summer brings forth vegetation.
In sheltered spots there was plenty
Of white and yellow flowers and the
Islands were positively alive with
gulls. There was no sign Of any 9th
err life. Nothing remained Of the
huts erected thirty years ago by the
Jaekson-Harmsworth expedition.
Our intention to reach eastern
Spitzbergen by way of the Eyches is
lands was frustrated by moving hum
mocky ice fields. Our best shooting
was between the 18th and 10th de-
grees. There got eleven out of
total of twenty-nine bears. Count
Rivadavia shot giant, weighing more
than 1000 pounds. Mine only aver
aged 800 pounds"
Kills Infatuated Beast
Miss Boyd told modestly of her
achievement in killing an Infatuated
bear at a range OF forty yards.
1t was lucky shot in the throat"
she said, but had narrow escape,
Bears move at an incredibly fast pace
once they are charging over the ice,
and the great thing for person to do
is to keep COOL
The party captured five cubs alive.
Three of them are about eighteen
months old and two six months old.
OF the best Of these Count Rivadavia
will present one to King Alfonso. The
others will be handed over to the Nor
wegian representative of a continental
menagerie
Miss Boyd said her only disappoint-
ment during the trip was the entire
absence of the walrus, which the
party had hoped to hunt
The women of the party wore high
boots, breeches, sweaters and heavy
coats and fur caps with ear flaps as
a protection against frostbite The
temperature. however, did not fall be-
10y II degrees of frost, Fahrenheit
For days the ship was encased In a
two-inch coating Of ice. The worst part
Of the trip came after a fruitless at
tempt to land on Hope island a lone
ly rock southeast Of Spitzbergen.
Miss Boyd took $1,000 feet of fllm,
beside TOO photographs of Arctic
scenery.