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"Not used" Parker Sykes Bart
Greenland - 16 December 1918
President H. F. Osborn
American Mus. Nat. Hist., New York.
Dear Sir:
I beg to submit the following report
of the voyage of the auxiliary schooner
"George B. Cluett" under charter to
the American Museum of Natural His-
tory for the relief of the Crocker Fund
Expedition Party, to bring back the
members of the party and their collections
and other property from Etah, North
Greenland.
Acting under your instructions
to take charge of this Relief Expedition,
I left New York on 1 July and pro-
ceeded to Sydney, Nova Scotia,
spending Tuesday, 6th July, with Admiral
Peary at Eagle Island. He gave me sev-
eral suggestions regarding plans. That
evening I received word that the "Cluett"
would not leave St. Anthony, N. F.,
until 10 July, but I wired her captain
to hasten his departure and I went
on to Sydney, where I arrived on
the 8th. The "Cluett" did not leave
St. Anthony until noon of the 10th, thus
being delayed two nine days later
than was of set. The date specified in her