New Britain herald., 1928-09-04
MACMILLAN PARTY
 ARRIVES AT SYDNEY EN ROUTE TO MAINE
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Continued from First Pase) along the coast. but the icebergs were there in thousands-more than had been seen in any one season within the memories of the oldest inhabitants. Unhampered by pan ice. the bergs drifted rapidly before the heavy gales that blow at fre- quent intervals. The result was that the seal season was failure. and ,, so was the fishery along the coast, for the ships were late in coming northward and the fish left early.
 Under these circumstances the wreck of the Bay Rupert was q godsend. She was loaded to the gunwales with everything that could be imagined. Sir Wilfred Grenfell, of the Labrador mission, asked me if I could mention one single ar ticle that could not be found in her lading. I guessed several times without success. Even her stock of rifles was in tin cases and flowed ashore undamaged."
 The Bowdoin picked up three loads of flour in bags floating at sea. It was found that an inch or two on the outside had caked with salt but the bulk of each bag was fresh and sweet. The flour was present. ed to the Moravian mission at Hope dale and was used to feed destitute natives.
 | Kodlunarn island was found in practically the same condition it was left in by Sir Martin Frobisher, famed Elizobethan explorer $50 years ago. Members of the Mac Milan expedition who visited were the first whites to set foot there for 6S years. and the second party for three centuries and half.
 Into frobishcr Bay
 During the absence of Comman- der MacMillan at St. Johns N. F., the Bowdoin in command of Cap tain Crowell, master of the Radio an auxiliary craft. was sent into Frobisher bay where the scientists on board had an opportunity oi seeing Kodlunarn and Slliman { fossil mound, discovered in 1860 by the Charles Francis Ball expedition The Bowdoin party found many traces of the Frobisher colony which
 was settled by between 50 and 6C men when the great seaman oi Queen Elizabeth sailed for home
 with his cargo of gold treas
 ure" which later proved L., be iror
 pyrites. The most striking of those
 yestiges were the wooden ways
 from which the colonists launched
 their vessels. They were still 1T good condition.
 At Stillmans mound the party
 obtained a number of interesting
 relics The scientists said that fos'
 sils exist not only in Baffin land
 but also in Newfoundland and Nova
 Scotia.
 On the maps Of the Elizabetha!
 period, Kodlunarn is referred to d:
 Meta Incognita. and l'robisher sup posed it's location to be on the eas coast of Greenland whereas 1t wal actually 700 miles west. Incident ally the Bowdoin group found tha Frobisher bay was shaped different
 ly than as charted.
 ) settlement Massacred
 The story Of Frobisher's colony ii another of the early tragedies o ) the north. Frobisher left his mei } we'll housed and supplied but the! were never heard of again. In 1S6'
 the Hall expedition stumbled upol
 hard coal tools and other evidence , of previous white occupancy, ant l learned from traditions picked u' } by the natives that the colonist l had flourished until they quarrelle' ? with the natives and killed some o l them. The Eskimos retaliated b. f mastering the whole settlement. 9 The expedition threw new ligh on the Nascopie Indians. a hithert l little known tribe of the interior 0 9 northern Labrador. Duncan Strong anthropologist, declared the Nasco f pies were one of the most primitiv 1 races in the world. Their languag  { particularly hardy and can live wit . comfort in ordinary skin tents wit V the weather at 45 below zero.
 Mir. Strong spent six weeks wit
 the Nascories, wandering with ther in their tribal treks and living i P their hunting lodges far in the in . terior. The Indians were incline f to guard their legends but Stron \ made friends with them an 1 through youthful interpreter sue n ceeded in making considerable pro . gress in his investigations. Familic f of Nascopies emerged from tn r woods and took up their abod
 alongside the scientific members c :, the expedition at Main and addition !. al facts were gleaned from th sn
 All members of the Bowdo:n' F company were in good healt : al though at one time Frank Hender
 son, mate of the Bowdoin. c
 Provinceto~n, Mass, and Cliffor
 Hymoe, radio operator of Los An
 geles. were blown down the bay i ! a small boat and. taking refuge o , an island. were badly numbed be s fore they could be rescued.
 Q There was geunine disappoin,
 ment when the expedition sailed fo home for to the white fishermen . native Indians and Eskimos :, meant the end of autom obiling. Th l