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Since February 15 Mr. Baker has been relieved of his active duties at Harvard, and during the coming months he expects to be in England and Holland securing material. It is the intention of Professor Baker to give full recognition to Cape Cod's part in the history of the voyage of the Pilgrims and to the experiences of the voyagers in their explorations about the bay before settling at Plymouth...
...Hoagland, L. A. de Turenne vs. J. B. Williams, R. B. Ayer vs. R. W. Marks, L. Bullock vs. E. D. Cumming, H. Epstein vs. M. L. Stolz, G. Sutton vs. T. L. Pank, L. M. Kleberg vs. J. D. Farnham, A. Houghton vs. A. L. Abbott, C. W. Cod vs. C. S. Weld...
...Cape Cod man, lucky enough to be at Daytona, Florida, in these days, writes that the wild geese have been seen flying north--a fact which East Coast natives assure him presages an early spring. Let us fervently pray that the East Coast people are true prophets, even if of the wishbone variety. With the temperature still vibrating rather wearily between five above and fifteen below, we need such hopefulness...
...question if the movements of geese in Florida waters can supply much of this, however, even if they are moving north. The Canada geese winter just south of the ice, in ordinary winters being found about Cape Cod even in the severest weather. This year the tidal flats which are their favorite feeding places have been iced up far below their usual limits. It may well be that they have gone farther south in unusual numbers, and are merely taking a brief trip up the coast for a "look in" on more familiar feeding places...
Captain Cook was born among the folk at the tip of Cape Cod. It was natural for him to take to the sea. He was a sailor boy t eleven, before the mast at fourteen, and captain of a fisherman at twenty, mate of a whaling ship at twenty-six, and master at thirty. For twenty years this rugged "toiler of the sea" chased the whale south to the Falkland in the Antarctic Ocean and north to the Banks Land in the Arctic following a course traced out upon no chart, avoiding shoals marked by no buoys...