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After a short preliminary talk Captain MacMillan showed 8,000 feet of moving picture film accompanied by a running series of comments. The speaker expanded on the Polar Esquimaux who live only 13 degrees from the North Pole...
...North Pole. There he found the children coasting down the hills, exactly, he said, like children elsewhere. The Esquimaux were very clever with their hands, and also with their feet. In illustration of this fact the speaker showed pictures of Esquimaux ladies holding their sewing in their toes. These Polar inhabitants had last been visited by Captain MacMillan in 1917, and when he arrived last year they told him that they had been waiting for his return since then...
Captain MacMillan had several experiences with animals during his trip. He said, "Once I caught a baby Polar Bear and broke him to harness, I used to drive around, but we didn't go where I wanted to go--we went where he wanted...
Captain MacMillan spent two years in graduate work at the University after receiving his degree from Bowdoin. Since, his life has been that of an explorer of the polar regions. He accompanied Peary, who had been interested in him for many years, on the trip when the north pole was discovered, and he has since made many discoveries which stamp him as one of the world's greatest explorers...
Beyond the polar seas, beyond the flows of ice and snow, lies a blind spot on the map, a never-never land to the explorers of the past. Peary, Scott and Stefanson have gone on to a greater discovery and the land of the Northern mysteries is still left untouched to challenge such men as Amundson, McMillan, and Olgarssor to add the last chapter to the history of continental discovery...