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Show LITTLE POLAR VESSEL SAILS With Amundsen Scientific Expedition the Maud Leaves Seattle SEATTLE. Wash . June 4. (By The Associated Press) The auxiliary power pow-er schooner Maud, bearing the Amundsen Amund-sen polar basin scientific expedition, sailed from Seattle at 3:40 o'clock this afternoon for Nome. Alaska, on tho first leg of a five-year voyage thrcugh the Arctic lco pack. Captain Oscar Wlstlng, sailing master mas-ter of th Maud, rommsnded the vessel ves-sel Roald Amundsen, chief of the expedition, ex-pedition, decided to proceed to Nome by steamer, sailing tomorrow. The United States navy tug Maho-pac Maho-pac and flotilla of cruisers from the fleets of the Seattle and Queen City a. in cluba escorted the Maud up the Puget Sound A hii'.- crowd gathered at the Union Un-ion ll company's deck to bid tho expedition ex-pedition God-speed At the time set :..r the departure a United States 'a:-mv band burst forth with the Star typangled Banner and a detachment of n . rlcan marines raised, the Stars and I Stripe over the dock and cast loose the Maud s cables. T,y band took up the Norwegian national na-tional anthem as tho little vessel mov ed out Into the stream northward bound Scores of ships In the harbor blarod 1 farewell with their whistles. Qap 'I" Amundsen accompanied his .si lp only to Wcstpoint, a few miles up ound He sails for Nome on the .!- lotorla tomorrow to rejoin the expedition when the Maud reaches there. |