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An Arctic Party Gets Back

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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
September
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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New York, Sept. 6.- The Miranda, bearDr. Cook's arctic party, left New York on the afternoon of Saturday, July 7. Her pasrengers numbered fifty in all. Most of tbem were scientlst and sportsmen, but there were several who weut for the benefit 6imply of the voyage and the pure northern air. The party was coufinedsolely to men. The Miranda was chartered for two inoutbs and n half. The plans were, after stops at prints íd Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, to cruise around Newfoundland and cross Davis' strait to the west coast of Greenland, where some of the scientists of the party could disembark and make explorations. The party bas jast reached North Sydney, Cape Breton lsle, minus the Miranda, which ran on a rock and later Kiink. No one was lost, but the Miranda not being available some of the party traveled 120 north of Sukkertoppen, Greenlaud, where there were some American vessels fishiug. They obtained one of these, the Rigel, and on ber safely made their way back to civilization and warm weather. The journey homeward was without incident other than adverse winds, the incouvenience of close quarters and insufficient provisions, only ten days' supplies for forty men having been placed on the Rijjel and the addition of the Miranda's crew making ninety-one persons on board this little craft of 107 tons.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News