Amidst much making of speeches, tooting of whistles, playing of bands and waving of flags, the Bowdoin and the Peary sailed out of Wiscasset Harbor, Me., last week, taking Commander MacMillan, Lieutenant Commander Byrd, 38 others and three amphibian planes north to Etah, Greenland, whence the Polar regions are to be charted by the airmen.
The land, which may or may not be there to the north of everything else, may not be found by MacMillan, may or may not cause a quarrel between Canada and Maine. Why Maine? "Because," said Governor Brewster in the...
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