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with tlie broken shaft had been removed. The neAV lioist, althouirh 

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

 for the remainder of the cruise. It took Avith the smaller Avire all 

 the deeper observations and coHected over 50 samples of the ooze 

 from the bottom of the Labrador-Greenhmd Basin. 



At r).45 p. m. Godthaab Avas left behind. The Marion stood out 

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

 lander Avho had been sent to school in Denmark to study naAdgation 

 and piloting. AVe learned that many of the brighter natiA^es are 

 sent to Denmark Avlien young to learn trades and arts Avhich Avill be 

 useful to them and their countrymen upon their return home. 



THE " MARION •' STOrrED FOR OBSERA'ATIONS 



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 6.50 p. m. on August 1, .1928, the pilot Avas 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 August 3 the offshore roAv of stations was 

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

 Strait. After running north for 150 miles, a neAv row of stations was 

 started in toAvard the Greenland coast in latitude 65° 20' X. On the 

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



The AA^eather since leaA'ing Godthaab had been fine and the sea 

 almost smooth, except for a confused ground swell. We sighted onlj'- 

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

 however, the weather became fogg}" and misty. Just before the last 

 station was taken, breakers about a small rocky islet Avere sighted 



