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Show BRING BACK RELICS OF ARCTIC EXPLORERS Interesting Eecords of Peary and Others on Exhibition in New York Museum. NEW YORK, Sept. 8. Hecords left by various explorers in the frozen north, sonic of them more than half a centurv old, brought back by Donald B. MaeMillan, head of the Crocker Land expedition, who recently returned, are todav on exhibition in the American Museum of Natural History in this city. Among the records is a silk lining of a cap worn by Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, the American' explorer, left by him at Rensselaer harbor in 1S53. There are also records left by Rear I Admiral -Pearv, including a bit of an American flag, left in 1906 at the top of Cape Thomas Hubbard. A packet of letters left in a cache at Cape Isbella in 1S7I3 by Captain Allan Young for Sir George JS'arc 's expedition, expedi-tion, also were found by MaeMillan. The Nare party left its mark only twenty feet from the cache where the letters were found, but departed without with-out discovering them. |