NORTH POLE OF THE WINDS 



hour of the day or night to make or shorten sail, 

 though we were not required to go aloft. 



After having deposited us with our stores the 

 Morrissey was to go about its cruising work 

 in Baffin Bay, but return in September so as to 

 bring us back to North Sydney. With a clear 

 view of the hazards of expeditions like ours, Mr. 

 Putnam and I signed jointly a letter in which it 

 was agreed that the Morrissey would be at Hol- 

 stensborg on September 18th and would find us 

 ready to embark unless by radio other plans had in 

 the meantime been arranged. If the ship should 

 give us no information before October 10th, we 

 were to assume that difficulty or disaster had oc- 

 curred. We were to notify the Danish authorities 

 and then shift for ourselves. As events proved the 

 Morrissey suffered shipwreck far to the north, but 

 eventually got off again in a crippled condition, 

 took us on at Holstensborg, and in spite of nasty 

 weather and a full gale got us all safely back to 

 North Sydney. 



The expedition which I directed was organized 

 as a University of Michigan enterprise and was 

 preliminary in its nature, having for its purpose the 

 discovery of a suitable base at which to establish an 

 aerological station for study of the peculiar glacial 

 anticyclone of Greenland, the northern Pole of 



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