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Farther north the ice conditions became worse. The entire fiord 

 region was closed. We were stopped 15 miles south of Shannon 

 Island by solid ice to the north and west. A little later, however, we 

 went around this, following north in the hope of being able to reach 

 the Belgica Bank and use our otter trawl, but bad weather turned 

 us back at latitude jj° 15' N. 



About 10 days were spent exploring the Clavering Fiord region in 

 search of the musk ox calves and other specimens. Whaleboat jour- 

 neys to the bottom of Loch Fine and Grant's Fiord were made. Nu- 

 merous bottom dredgings and plankton hauls produced valuable speci- 

 mens of marine life. Many species of birds were encountered ; espe- 

 cially abundant were the pink-footed geese, the Arctic terns, and the 

 ringed plovers. We got a fine lot of photographs and motion pictures 

 in this region. 



Cruising south, we stopped for 2 days at Angmagssalik to visit the 

 Eskimos and the Danish Settlement, good friends of our former trips 

 to the east coast. 



The unusually fine weather of August 25 permitted us to work in 

 toward Cape Farewell and use our otter trawl in a region heretofore 

 untouched. The day was a memorable one, with the sun so bright 

 on the mountains looking down on us ; outside lurked billowing banks 

 of fog which slowly closed in as the net dragged along the bottom at 

 a hundred fathoms. It was a grand haul, for among the wealth of 

 marine life it contained there were five specimens of a very rare 

 10-armed starfish, Crossaster squamatus. Austin H. Clark, of the 

 National Museum, tells me that heretofore only five specimens of this 

 species have been known in the world and that they are all in European 

 museums. The specimens which I collected, now in the National 

 Museum at Washington, are the first in any American collection. 



A party that went ashore on one of the small islands found it to 

 be typically Labrador in appearance, with its many small ponds and 

 blueberry and crowberry bushes. Four Brant geese, many northern 

 phalaropes, and purple sandpipers were encountered. 



On the voyage from Cape Farewell to Newfoundland plankton 

 hauls were made every 4 hours, rain or shine, snow or blow. 



We made the Newfoundland coast on September 1, stopping at 

 Brigus for 2 days before following on to New York and Staten Island, 

 where the little Morrissey is tied up for the winter. All hands re- 

 turned in good health, our specimen boxes were brimful, and the 

 musk ox calves in fine fettle. Already we have started laying our plans 

 for next summer's voyage ; one good trip begets another. 



