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work but no signals were received and none that were sent
out reached any other stations. By arrangement with the
Canadian Government and the Canadian Marconi Co.
the operator at Fogo, Newfoundland, "stood by" on certain evenings every month listening in for signals
from Etah but none reached his attention.
The understanding with Mr. Mac Millan and his
staff was that The Museum would provide for the return
of the party in 1915, unless word were received that Crocker
Land had been visited and that sufficient scientific
work remained to be done to make a third year in its
Far North desirable. In December, 1914, word reached me from
Mr. Eckblaw that Messrs. Mac Millan and Green had returned from their journey on the ice of the Polar Sea and
that "Crocker Land" did not exist there was no land in
sight from the spot where "Crocker Land" was supposed
to be. The storm that held Mr. Eckblaw at the
place where he met Knud Rasmussen's motor boat
and sent out this word prevented that boat from
getting to Etah and bringing out Mr. Mac Millan's
own report on the quest for Crocker Land, but
we inferred that the Expedition would be ready to
return in the summer of 1915. Hence early in the
spring of 1915, while the writer was absent on an