NORTH POLE OF THE WINDS 



The Morrissey is of 83 tons register, 100 feet 

 Tong, and with the lines of a yacht. A report had 

 come to North Sydney that the straits of Belle 

 Isle, which separate Newfoundland from Labrador 

 and through which the Morrissey was to sail, were 

 still crammed solid with field ice pushed in from 

 Davis Strait. However, a favorable southerly 

 wind might clear the straits at any time, and under 

 an overcast sky the anchor was weighed and at 

 eleven o'clock under full sail and with motor run- 

 ning we moved out to sea. 



The Morrissey had been chartered for the expe- 

 dition of the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory under command of George Palmer Putnam 

 and was setting out to cruise in Baffin Bay and 

 secure specimens of the larger forms of ocean 

 life for the new Oceanic Hall of the Museum. The 

 other members of this expedition were : Dr. Harry 

 C. Raven of the Zoological Staff of the Museum 

 and second-in-command of the expedition; Daniel 

 W. Streeter of Buffalo, hunter; "Art" Young, 

 champion bowman of the world and famous for 

 his killing with bow and arrow of big game animals 

 in Africa and Alaska; Carl Dunrud, cowboy rop- 

 ing expert who captures big game with the lariat. 

 To prepare the skins Fred Limekiller of the Mu- 

 seum staff was included. Maurice Kellerman, mo- 



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