TO GREENLAND ON THE MORRISSEY 



tion picture expert of the Pathe Corporation, who 

 had already made pictures for other expeditions, 

 was of the party, and Dr. Peter Heinbecker, well- 

 known specialist, had shipped as surgeon and was 

 interested especially in the pathology of the Green- 

 land Eskimos. The engineer of the expedition 

 was Robert E. Peary, Jr., son of the discoverer 

 of the North Pole, with Young and Dunrud as 

 assistants, and Edward Manley was radio operator. 

 Mr. Putnam was taking with him his thirteen- 

 year-old son, David, who had already made a voy- 

 age in the Arcturus with Dr. Beebe and had pub- 

 lished his "David Goes Voyaging." This was the 

 staff of the expedition for which the ship had been 

 chartered and the cruise was to extend throughout 

 the summer and penetrate into Baffin Bay as far 

 as Cape York in 76° N. latitude. 



For my own expedition of six men I had made a 

 contract with Director Putnam under the terms 

 of which we were to be taken aboard the Morrissey 

 as passengers and were to be set down at the head 

 of the Maligiakfjord, about thirty miles east of 

 Holstensborg in Greenland; except in the event 

 of adverse weather conditions prevailing, when 

 we were to be set down at Holstensborg upon the 

 coast. Our entire party qualified as "able land- 

 lubbers" and were subject to call on deck at any 



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