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with the broken shaft had been removed. The new hoist, although 

 not so fast as the one that had been designed for the job, worked well 

 for the remainder of the cruise. It took witli the smaller wire all 

 the deeper observations and collected over 50 samples of the ooze 

 from the bottom of the Labrador-Greenland Basin. 



At 5.45 p. m. Godthaab was left behind. The Marlon stood out 

 the north entrance under the pilotage of Xis Lynge, a native Green- 

 lander who had been sent to school in Denmark to study navigation 

 and piloting. We learned that many of the brighter natives are 

 sent to Denmark when young to learn trades and arts which will be 

 useful to them and their countrymen upon their return home. 



THE •' MARION •' STOl'l'ED FOR OBSERVATIONS 



Figure 10. — From the starboard side of the main deck house a platform was constructed 

 which overhung the side. The wire on which tlie instruments were lowered into the 

 sea ran from an electric winch on the deck house and through a sheave at the head 

 of a small pair of sheer legs. A Greene-Bigelow water bottle is here being hoisted; 

 up to the working platform. 



At G.50 p. m. on Augu.st 1, 1928, the pilot was dropped into his 

 small motor boat, and the Marion stood out past the Kok Island 

 beacon to begin a line of oceanographic stations extending offshore 

 for 170 miles. Early on Augu.st 3 the offshore row of stations was 

 completed and a northerly course was set up the center of Davis 

 Strait. After running north for 150 miles, a new row of stations w^as 

 started in toward the Greenland coast in latitude G5° 20' N. On the 

 morning of August 5, this other row of stations were finished. 



The weather since leaving Godthaab had been fine and the sea 

 almost smooth, except for a confused ground sAvell. We sighted only 

 one or two icebergs and no pack ice. When near the Greenland coast, 

 however, the weather became foggy and misty. Just before the last 

 station was taken, breakers about a small rocky islet w^ere sighted 



