[Guadeloupe, Saint Vincent, 'Cluett' Voyage] 1915-1916
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"colors of the sunset clouds, but [?] not finding any favorable leads along the shore and fearing that some of the bergs might come together and crush us, Captain Pickelsteins ed about and motored out to sea for two hours, finally mooring the vessel to a big floe. Another week of drifting, sailing and motoring carried us along forty miles nearly on our course and found us between the headlands of Cape York Bay. We were in sight of Meteorite Island and I had a chance to look through my binocular at the place where Admiral Plean secured the great the largest in the world, iron meteorite, which was christened Ahnighito and now is one of the chief treasures of the American Museum of Natural History."