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    "ocrText": "THE DETROIT FREE PRESS- SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1927\nEXPLORES EARTH'S MOST DESOLATE LAND\nSpecial to The Free Press.\nAnn Arbor, Oct. 29 Fancy a spot\nn earth, so desolate that it has re-\nhained one of nature's few fast-\nesses almost since the beginning\nif time; so bleak that neither man\nfor beast is able to survive on its\nhilly wastes; so unfit for any use\nas to make it wholly worthless. If\na full understanding of such a con-\ndition can come within the scope\nof imagination, then, and only then,\nUpper left, Dr. Lawrence M. Gould, taken aboard the Morrissey in the north country; upper right, the\ncan one comprehend obstacles which\nthe George Palmer Putman Baffin\nMorrissey stuck in the ice; lower left, John Pope, of Detroit, and Avalisha, an Eskimo guide; lower right,\nIsland expedition faced, when, in\nthe coast of Labrador where mountains rise sheer from the sea to a height of 5,000 feet.\nthe staunch ship Morrissey,\nit\nreached the southwest side of Baf-\ning Fox Basin, Captain Robert\nfin island\nappeared from view altogether, run-\nBartlett, better known to the men\nsummers in the Baffin island marsh,\nning more than 10 miles over a flat'\nThe land is described by Dr.\nas \"Cap'n Bob,\" driving his ship\nReturning from the explorations,\nLawrence M. Gould, professor of\ntableland. When it e-appeared, it\nthe party stopped at the Hudson\nfarther up into the basin, while the\ngeology of the University of Michi-\ntook the form of a swiftly, ap-\nsmaller party, made up of Director\nBay company posts on the south\nproaching wall.\ngan, who recently returned from\nPutnam, Dr. Gould and five others,\nside of the island, and became ac-\nNew York, following the arrival\nThe tide was not alone in making\nincluding John Pope, of Detroit, who\nquainted with the Eskimos spending\nnavigation hazardous, as the whole\nthere of the expedition. Until the\nthe summer there. It learned that\nwas an assistant in surveying, re-\nbasin was found to be shallow\nrecent discoveries made by the\nmained on the southwest shore of\nthe Eskimos are the most perfect\nSoundings showed that it was but\nPalmer expedition, this section of\nBaffin island Its purpose was to\noutdoor people in the world, and\nfive or six fathoms deep in places\nBaffin island was the largest known\nexplore the land.\neven though starvation is \"just\nwhich were out of sight of the\nspot on the globe which remained\naround the corner\" are the happiest\nunexplored.\nTide Adds to Danger.\nshore.\npeople. Men and women chew to-\nThe land was a precambrian rock\nbacco and the trading of children\nSeveral Facts Established.\nCaptain Bartlett started away, but\nformation, on which grew only\nis as common as the trading of\nreturned a short time later, to\nmoss, used for food by occasional\nwives in Greenland. The Eskimos\nThe Palmer expedition settled\nsatisfy himself that the smaller\nsmall herds of caribou. A short\nvisited by the party were altogether\nseveral issues, geographical and\nparty was safe. He then turned the\ndistance back from the shore was\nan interesting lot. Given trinkets,\ngeological, which up to this time\nbow of the Morrissey north again.\nseen the mesa, rising to a height\nthey radiated happiness; provided\nhad been clouded. First, it dis-\nHis second stay was longer, taking\nof from 800 to 1,000 feet, and ex-\nwith cornmeal, they \"dived into it,'\ncovered that from 5,000 to 6,000\nhim across the basin and into Fury\npressed by Dr. Gould as \"an aston-\nfiguratively and literally speaking\nsquare miles, which it had been be-\nand Hecla straits. The Morrissey,\nishing, wholly unexpected physio-\nThe expedition returned home\nlieved was land, in reality is water.\nliving up to her reputation as one\ngraphic formation.\" It was flat, a\nearly in October, after being held\nNext, it learned that the mesa, a\nof the staunchest and most sea-\ntableland, a mesa, as perfect as\nup by storms which lashed the coast\nformation heretofore known only in\nworthy ships afloat, battered her\nthose seen in the south.\nof Labrador for days, making prog-\narid lands, exists in the northland\nway through the ice and into un-\nBlue Goose Home Visited.\nress impossible.\nas well. Thirdly, it added a bit to\nexplored waters. More than once\nzoology, by finding the home of the\nshe became fast and was held by\nAbout 200 miles of the coast line\nWILL\nwell-known blue goose. Fourthly\nthe grip of the floes, but each time\nit discovered one of the most rapid-\nwas explored by the party, and the\nshe shook off the frozen tentacles\nrunning and dangerous tides that is\nand ploughed on through.\ndiscovery made, that the southwest\nknown.\ncorner of the island is a wide\nThe smaller party, meanwhile, ex-\nLeaving New York on June 12,\npeninsula, jutting out for a long\nperienced many hazards. Ignorant\nthe Morrissey steamed up past the\ndistance. It is but half as wide as\nof tidal conditions, of reefs, of the\nLabrador coast, stopping once to\nmapmakers of the past believed,\ncharacter of the land, it started out\nrepair the propeller which had been\nand reduces the known surface of\nalong the shore in a 24-foot whale-\nbent by the ice. Ice was extremely\nboat. Its first discovery brought\nthe island by upwards of 5,000\ndangerous. It sailed on past the\nsquare miles.\nthe realization that only extreme\nsouth shore of Baffin island. going\nThe party strayed upon the home\nB\ncare and skill in the handling of\nby three Hudson Bay company posts\nof the blue goose on its trip, lo-\n(on the island. Then its nose was\nthe craft would bring it safely\ncating the breeding ground in a\nthrough the dangers provided by\nned into Fox sound, the body of the tide, in the form of ice on the Putnam, son of the director, shot\nlarge swamp, after David Binney\nuisited but by one white man\nsurface and rocks beneath. More\nly, Luke Fox, an English\nspecimen thousands afternoon. Countless a\none\na\nthan once the boat was left lying\nwho, it has been learned, cradled in the mud, while the water\nof the birds were seen.\nci\nmiles up into the basin.\nThe blue goose known in this\nwhich had been sufficiently deep to\nclimate, migrates as far south as"
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