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Mac Millan's desire to spend a third year in the arctic
to carry on some studies which he had not been able
to make, while so much of his time and energy were
employed in caring for the administrative work of
the large enterprise under his charge. As matters even-
tuated, it was fortunate that these supplies were taken
north, though they were not used for the purpose for which
they were procured and forwarded. Six days were con-
sumed by the schooner in making the voyage from St An-
thony to Sydney, so that she was not ready to receive
our cargo of coal and provisions until the afternoon
of Friday the 16th. Thanks to the energetic assistance
of Captain A. J. Morrison of the Dingraham Supply
Co., repairs to the windlass of the schooner, and the
terosene and gasoline that she needed were gotten
on board in spite so that the vessel was ready to leave
by the afternoon of the 19th, in spite of the intervention
of the Saturday afternoon holiday and Sunday
when no one in Nova Scotia works if he can avoid
doing so. Meanwhile Captain Pickels had gotten
Together an almost entirely new crew, only three of
the men who brought the vessel around from Boston
to Sydney remaining on board for the voyage to
Etah. Then we set out from Sydney at 6 o'clock.
The men upon whom depended the success of our enter-