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...most important feature of the whole trip was a stone church found on the way home at Gotthaab, Greenland, which he was certain had been erected by early Norsemen. It was finely preserved; the walls, laid without cement, being smooth as a ship's deck. It had evidently served as a fortress, with peepholes for windows. Ruined homesteads lay near. Next summer MacMillan will investigate the Gotthaab remains more fully, and other remains on an island near Labrador, to establish the route by which the Vikings penetrated his native New England...
...harbor at San Pedro, the Seattle, flagship of the U. S. fleet, lay at anchor. On her deck Admiral Samuel S. Robison,*sturdy stocky, determined, dark-complexioned with iron-grey hair and a close-clipped mustache, faced Admiral Robert E. Coontz, for two years Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. fleet. Everyone wore his very best bib and uniform, immaculate, ceremonial. There were a few stiff movements, an exchange of salutes and Samuel S. Robison became Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. fleet
Next month Italian and Egyptian delegations will be taken on a yacht belonging to the Italian Navy to a point off the African coast opposite the Oasis of Jarabub. Gazing toward the Oasis from the shiny deck, the Marquis Negrotto Dicambiaso for Italy and Sidik Pasha for Egypt will determine the exact disposition to be made of the Oasis, and trace the future rectifications of the frontier between Egypt and Italian Tripoli...
Near Mr. Kennerley on the deck of the Majestic stood Jules Mast-baum, cinema magnate. He submitted to the routine of cameras and notebooks with such a look of satisfaction as a man might wear who had just nipped off the end of a fine cigar or buried his nose in the bouquet of an old bottle...
...drum of gasoline had been swept overboard, a rare specimen or two collected by Naturalist Walter N. Koelz had been lost; but all hands were well and happy to be in touch once more with their home continent. The Peary, with the expedition's Navy seaplanes lashed on deck, had fared similarly. Nosing on southward, the Bowdoin ran aground, snapped her mainsail gaff in a sharp squall. At last the buildings of the Grenfell Mission loomed on the shore of Battle Harbor. After a brief stop there, the pilgrims pushed off on their journey's last...