Crocker Land Relief
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Crocker Land Expedition Relief When the old Newfoundland sealer "Erik" came back after landing Mr. MacMillan and his party at Etah in August, 1913, from the Arctic in the fall of 1913, She brought letters from Mr. MacMillan and his staff telling of the safe landing of the party and their effects at the point where Peary had his headquarters at Etah in the winter of 1899-1900. They reported but few articles missing as a result of the grounding of the "Diana" in the Straits of Belle Isle and asked for certain supplies to be sent up the next year, if opportunity should offer. Although they had 500 tons of Sydney, N.S., coal, cook and [illegible] of the party, Jot Small said that that was scarcely enough for one winter, to say nothing of two long, cold years but he was figuring on the basis of the consumption of the store as the Cape Cod life-saving station where he had served for nine years and could not realize the ease of warming the tightly built, snow- banked house which the Expedition was to have for its headquarters. In May, June, 1914, The winter mail from Etah arrived and reassured us as to there being coal enough for the two years of [illegible] to the Expedition's life in the Arctic. Little did