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a medical staff, from administering quinine to repairing broken 

 limbs. 



Gary of '87 > who is even now planning for his struggle with the 

 difficulties on the way -to the Grand Falls, has had the most experi- 

 ence in work of the sort the expedition hopes to do, save the Pro- 

 fessor and Cole. Logging and hunting in the Maine forests in the 

 vicinity of his home in Machias, and fishing on the Georges from 

 Cape Ann smacks, have fitted him physically, as taking the highest 

 honors for scholarship at Bowdoin, teaching and university work in 

 his chosen branch, have prepared him mentally, for the great task in 

 which he leads. 



Cole who accompanies him up Grand River, was Prof. Lee's 

 assistant on the " Albatross," and is well fitted by experience and by 

 a vigorous participation in athletics at college before his graduation 

 in '88. 



From the expedition's actual starting place, Rockland, there are 

 four members: Rice, the yachtsman, Simonton, Spear and the 

 writer, all fair specimens of college boys, and eager to get some re- 

 flection from the credit which they hope to help the expedition to 

 win. 



Portland has two representatives : Rich, '92, and Baxter, 93, the 

 latter our only freshman ; while Bangor sends three : Hunt, '90, 

 Hunt, '91, vrho has charge of the dredging, and Hastings the taxi- 

 dermist. 



W. R. Smith, another salutatorian of his class, is one of the 

 many Maine boys whom Massachusetts has called in to help train 

 the youth of our mother Commonwealth, and has been at the head 

 of the High School at Leicester for the past year. He, too, is 

 thought to equal in physical vigor his mental qualities, and has 

 been selected to brave the hardships of the Grand River. 



To complete the detail for this exploration, Young of Brunswick 

 and of '92, has been selected, another athlete of the college, who 

 has had, in addition to his training at Bowdoin, a year or more of 

 instruction in the schools and gymnasiums of Germany. 



Porter, Andrews, and Newbegin, the latter, the only man not 

 from Maine, coming from Ohio, and only to be accounted for as a 

 member of the expedition by the fact that his initials P. C. stand 

 for Parker Cleaveland, finish the list, with but one exception and 

 that is Lincoln. The merry-maker and star on deck and below 

 except when the weather is too rough he keeps the crowd good- 

 natured when fogs, rain, head winds and general discomfort tend to 



