Show I RADIO BRINGS I MESSAGE FROM FROMI I NORTH J Captain f Captain tain Do Donald ald B. B MacMillan Mac- Mac MIlIan Millan Tells Tens of North Where e Stars Are Cons Constantly Con Con- s antly Visible at Present CALGARY Alta Atta Nov ov 24 Tie T The e following dispatch from Captain I Donald onald B. B B 1 MacMillan Arctic explorer explorer ex explorer ex- ex ed In his cabin on the Bowdoin miles from the North pole was wad waE received by the Calgary radio station here early f r morning Interference from a l Ibcal cal station caused some mutila tt tion of or the received ed message as but butY most most part the signals from Y as MacMillan MacMillan's ns s 's ship is des- des g ed w we re te a clear l j HARBOR On Greenland N ov 20 Special Radio Dispatch to to tie the Times Thus and the North American Newspaper Alliance Copyright by by North American Newspaper Af AP Blanco lance Jance In U U. S S. S and Great Britain AH All rights res reser reserved ed dBy BY BY CAPTAIN DONALD B. B MACJ MAC- MAC s. s J MILLAN I 7 The bi big night I is coming on rapidly rapid rapid- ly h ly The s sun n is seven degrees below the southern horizon at midday and and the star stars are aie re- re constantly visible over us ps s adding to their numbers anI and moving ing in ip great circles above o our r heads like illuminated hands of or a giant Sant clock The North star is aIn almost al- al most n st directly between the masts of ot t the the little Bowdoin t- t k Contrary to general belief beliet t tie tho c F tars stars and darl darkness n ss ar are welcome to toA i A Eskimos of the North Korth It is the i r evening of the long a active tive day day- The i work work is done The harvest of seals birds and eggs has been fathered and now comes the rest and companionship which the native na na- tive loves oves for above all he is a social so social so- so cial animal The pleasures of the hunt are keen kem but not more than the joys of ot the cold sparkling winter winter win win- ter night when with galloping do dog team he speeds away o over er the sea Ic ice to visit father mother brot brother r sister sweetheart or fri friend nd HOLD MANY RACES In order to keep physically ph fit tIt we have arranged an elaborate daily daffy schedule First we have breakfast at 9 a a. a m m. m At 10 o'clock there tiler Is s rifle shooting shooting- by br starlight on n the harbor Ice 11 a a. a m one one- one mile dog team race 12 m m. fifty yard dash 1 1 Ip p. p m m. yard rard snowshoe race lace 2 p p. p m. m three legged race 4 p m m. dinner 5 S p p. p in m m. phonograph con- con I cort ct 6 S GD p n. n m m. and American games 7 to 9 p P. P m m. motion pictures pictures pictures pic pic- tures 9 to 1 12 p p. p m. m radio from home home and and this last Is always the most enjoyable le It hardly seems possible that we occupy hero here the center of a region that has been extremely hostile to toI every British American and Nory Nori I expedition while we ourselves ourselves our our- ourselves selves are so well and In our winter quarters We Ye are near the place pace where the tho Franklin party made their last Jast stand On the hill hilt above our little harbor we can look lookup lookup lookup up the coast a few miles to their winter quarters where III ill clothed and ill fed ted they fought their fight against darkness s scurvy hunger and death Two vo graves grave's mark the site of their struggle and the re regIons regions regions re- re gions of ot their staunch advance It was here that an exploration ship from the the- United States States' took refuge years lears ago battered by Ice and wind with bowsprit gone taff- taff rail Smashed mashed and rudder badly damaged I Tw Twelve elv e years eyears later the theU theU U U. 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S PolarIs clutched by Ice drifted d past here a 30 wreck and was beached a few miles mlles below Refuge harbor and went to the bottom the following year LAST STRUGGLE Two years years later the magnificent ships of the British North 1 Pole ex expedition expedition expedition ex- ex steamed northward rd from here to reach the pole They re returned returned re re- turned the following year with col colors colors col- col OI- OI ors lowered for the men lost In the the struggle Practically all were at- at I with scurvy In 1883 we find the Greeley party g of starvation starvation star star- starvation across the channel at Cape Sabin twenty-five twenty miles distant Scraps of clothing and even lichen on the rocks were eaten to el eke c out outa a possible existence until spring but the unfriendly Arctic rigorously ex exacted exacted exacted ex- ex acted its toll of ot nineteen souls soula from the total of or twenty five The fa famous famous ta- ta Fram Tram under Sverdrup p and the Windward under Peary were both baled ed and blocked by br the heavy i ice e of or Smith sound and Kane basin in 1889 both in sight of our GUI our winter quarters The Thc Ro Roosevelt smashed her way up th the passage here in 1905 but came back a wreck and w would uld never have hav reached home had it not been I for the indomitable will Indomitable will of Captain I Bob Bartlett I In the far North North- during the late spring and summer summer periods the villages vil- vil villages villages vil vil- lages are Isolated by stretches of I open pen water rarely undertaken en by I their frail trail sealskin l kayaks ayal s. s Land j jo journeys are well nigh Impossible I and almost unknown Freezing of the sea ice pi provides ov ides a great white highway y up and down the coast which is soon marked with the feet of or hundreds of dogs and parallel tracks s of s sledge edge runners Stories are told songs are re sung the soapstone pot Is filled to overflowing over over- flowing proof flowing pi positive of or the valor I and strength of or the successful hunter We Ve will hear rich folklore tales tales' of a land of ot giants of or a dwarf one eyed race race and Inland dwelling g people of the origin of the walrus walrus reindeer bear etc of ot th the gods of the sea and land guardian spirits and the reincarnation of the the- soul soul soul- crude crud intimations of universal faith in Immortality I |