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...Peter, Minn., a patient at the State Hospital for the Insane incased in a strait-jacket from his waist up, killed his cell mate with his bare feet...
From Banks Island on they were never out of sight of wolves. They crossed the ice of McClure Strait to Melville Island. Wolves! They saw tracks of an Eskimo sledge going northwest toward Prince Patrick Island. Tracks indicated that 16 or 18 dogs were pulling the sledge, six or eight people accompanying them. This sight was first reward for the two hard-ridden explorers. They thus proved what the Canadian Government had contended was unlikely-that Eskimos never passed north of Banks Island. The pleased pair now bore eastward toward Winter Harbor to see what might lie there. Near Winter...
...their Familia Volano, a big black-&-silver Sikorsky amphibian, the Hutchin-sons-George, 30, Blanche, 28, Kathryn, 8, Janet Lee, 6-and a crew of four had hopped by easy stages to Labrador (TIME, Sept. 5), thence across Davis Strait to Greenland and down the coast to Julian-ehaab. Hopping off from there to the booming salute of a Danish warship, Pilot Hutchinson skirted the southern tip of the great island, headed north for Angmagsa-lik. His itinerary called for successive hops to Iceland, the Faroe Islands, England, Rome...
...frontier towns scores of escaping monarchists were arrested. The Marquis de Festival, at whose Seville house General Sanjurjo made his headquarters, was chased toward Gibraltar by Civil Guards. As the pursuers' car drew up alongside his car he jammed on the brakes, jumped out, waded into the Strait and began swimming. Later a motorboat picked him up, still swimming toward Africa. In Seville mobs burned monarchists' homes, freed Communists and Syndicalists from jail, mobbed royalist newspaper offices. As prisoners left the jail, others- participants in the revolt-went in. Republican demonstrations were staged in Cordoba, Valencia, Santander, Barcelona...
Under Captain Robert ("Bob") Bartlett the motored schooner Morrissey bore them through Davis Strait, past Kraulshafen, Greenland, where Dr. Belknap sent two assistants ashore; across Baffin Bay, across Melville Bay. Atop Cape York the jaunters found plenty of rocks but little labor to haul cement and scaffolding up the heights from the Morrissey. Seeking Eskimo helpers, the party went down the hill and over to Thule. a nearby village where lives Hans Nielsen, Danish Governor of the region...