THE SEARCH FOR HASSELL AND CRAMER 



might still be there, and if he found them give 

 them news of the loss of the plane and enlist their 

 help. 



On Sunday morning, August 19, at about 

 10:30 the "Greater Rockford" plane carrying 

 Hassell and Cramer had appeared out of the fog 

 overhanging Davis strait and had circled about 

 over the little Eskimo settlement of Fiskenaesset 

 near latitude 63°, just as the Eskimo people were 

 on their way to church. A report of this incident 

 was sent to us at Mount Evans through the God- 

 havn station and reached us four days later. The 

 plane had circled low so that everyone in the little 

 settlement was able to see the binoculars in the 

 hands of the flyers and make out the wires operat- 

 ing the tail and ailerons. A little later I received 

 a radiogram through the New York Times, which 

 came to us over the Times News broadcast also, 

 that the plane had also been seen over Julianehaab, 

 which is in extreme south Greenland. This report 

 was shown later to be that of the Fiskenaesset 

 appearance which had gone out to the world 

 through the Julianehaab chief radio station with- 

 out clear statement of its origin and which of 

 course gave the impression that the plane was over 

 Julianehaab. If the plane had really appeared 

 there and had come down in the vicinity and not 



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