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V YORK TIMES, FR
MORRISSEY RETURNS
ALONG LABRADOR
Putnam Party's Ship Makes
GOING HOME
Good Time Coming Out of
Hudson Strait.
BELLL ISLE STRAIT
HAS RE-MAPPED FOX LAND
Expedition Found Radio Communi-
cation More Favorable With Mid-
West Than With East.
By GEORGE PALMER PUTNAM.
Copyright, 1927, by The New York Times Company.
By Wireless to THE NEW YORK Times.
ON BOARD THE SCHOONER
MORRISSEY, Carrying the Putnam
ORRISSEY STRUGGLES
Expedition to the Arctic, Sept. 15.-
SOUTH FROM ARCTIC
Two days of fine, fair weather have
seen us far on our homeward course.
By tomorrow, without mishap, we
After Setback by Tide and Wind
will round Cape Chidley at en-
trance of the [Hudson] Strait and
Leaving Hudson Strait, Putnam
then away south along the Labrador,
to our destination, Sydney, N. S.,
Party Ship Runs Homeward.
something more than a thousand
miles toward New York.
By GEORGE PALMER PUTNAM.
We seem again to have emerged
Copyright, 1927, by The New York Times Company.
into an area of workable radio com-
By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES,
munication. At the western end of
ON BOARD THE SCHOONER
Hudson Strait and to the north in
MORRISSEY OF THE PUTNAM,
Fox Basin the conditions were very
EXPEDITION TO THE ARCTIC,
difficult. Indeed, from Sept. 2 to the
OFF CAPE CHIDLEY, Labrador,
11th we were shut off entirely, both
Sept. 17.-Hudson Strait is unkind to
for sending and receiving, by some
visitors. When we came to its
inexplicable atmospheric or magnetic
threshold in late June unhospitable
conditions.
ice, milling about in the tortuous
During this time the Northern
tide currents, blocked our entrance
Lights were especially brilliant.
Whether the electrical conditions
for weeks. In fact, smashing the
which caused them were responsible
Morrissey's propeller and shaft, it
for radio difficulties is problematical.
sent us, crippled, back for catch-as-
Manley, our radio operator, has
catch-can repairs on a North Labra-
pretty well established the fact that
dor beach.
the eastern part of the United States
And now, as we emerge from the
is by far the hardest to reach by air
Strait after two months to the west
from the North Hudson Bay region.
and north, it seems reluctant to re-
There seems to be comparatively
lease us comparatively unscathed. It
easy access down through the Mid-
has taken three days to negotiate a
dle Western points, while even the
decent day's run to the Button Is-
Far West is better to work than the
lands and around them. Black fog,
East.
bleak headwinds with lumpy ice and
The ratio of stations heard by the
tide rips contriving always to run
Morrissey, as of Middle West, Far
the wrong way, have made the go-
West and East, is about five, three
ing dismally slow.
and one: which makes the good con-
Tonight the fog has cleared, but a
nections maintained with us by The
giant swell, oily and fabulously deep,
New YORK TIMES radio station all
stands us on our beam ends. Half
the more remarkable
the crowd has decided that eating,
Except for the recent total "dead"
for the present, is hardly worth
period, radio contact has been main-
while.
tained almost constantly, and peri-
At least now we are well around
odically we have even been able to
the corner and clawing our way up
cooperate in relaying messages from
the Labrador homeward bound and
the Hobbs party in Greenland Like-
happy for it. The sky is wierdly
wise, almost every night we have re-
crowded with dancing northern
ceived from The TIMES its excellent
lights, and prospects, if you can
broadcast of world news.
count them hereabout, are for that
Coming eastward from Cape Dor-
northerly wind we want, with prom-
set, we stopped for five days at
ise of fast programs toward Sydney
Chorkbat Inlet, a deep and un-
mapped fjord extending in from the
A dispatch from Mr. Putnam last
northern shore of the Strait. It has
Thursday stated that up to that time
never been investigated or entered
the Morrissey had had favoring
by any vessel.
winds on its run southeach from
The Morrissey went up about thirty
Baffin Land, where the party has
miles, and our whaleboat party pene-
carried out extensive explorations,
trated to each of its double heads.
and expected to pass Cape Chidley,
Professor Gould brings back data
the northern point of the Labrador
for an excellent reconnoisance map.
coast, that night,
The inlet reaches well up north
toward the very bottom of Bowman
Bay, substantiating Eskimo reports
that it was used as part of a water-
and-land route across Fox Land to
Fox Basin and the caribou and goose
hunting territories northward. Likely
less than seventy-five miles of land
separates the head of the inlet from
the southeasterly bight of Fox Basin,
at the head of Bowman Bay, as we
have re-established it.
The maps and data will be worked
up for the American Geographical
Society by Professor Gould, and the
information will be available for the
dian authorities.
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The sky is wierdly\nwise, almost every night we have re-\ncrowded with dancing northern\nceived from The TIMES its excellent\nlights, and prospects, if you can\nbroadcast of world news.\ncount them hereabout, are for that\nComing eastward from Cape Dor-\nnortherly wind we want, with prom-\nset, we stopped for five days at\nise of fast programs toward Sydney\nChorkbat Inlet, a deep and un-\nmapped fjord extending in from the\nA dispatch from Mr. Putnam last\nnorthern shore of the Strait. 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Likely\nless than seventy-five miles of land\nseparates the head of the inlet from\nthe southeasterly bight of Fox Basin,\nat the head of Bowman Bay, as we\nhave re-established it.\nThe maps and data will be worked\nup for the American Geographical\nSociety by Professor Gould, and the\ninformation will be available for the\ndian authorities."
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