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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