Crocker Land Relief
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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