EXPLORER'S LAST ACT
CAGED BIRD SET FREE REYKJAVIK, Sept. 20. Twenty-two of the bodies washed up from' the exploration ship Pour-quoi-pas, which was wrecked off tho Iceland coast last week, were landed hero in the presence of tho Premier and 2000 people, who stood bare-head-ed. The solo survivor, Petty-oftieer Geonedec, also arrived. He is s-till suffering from .shock. He told a touching story of Dr. Charcot, the leader of the expedition the Pour-quoi-Pas carried. Dr. Charcot, he said, was a great lover of birds. Off Angmngsalik, Greenland, a gull flew aboard the Pourquoi-pas. It became tame and flew around by day, and at night was placed in a box. The last Petty-officer Geonedec saw of Dr. Charcot before the explosion of the boilers wa.s when Dr. Charcot quickly left the bridge where he was standing with the captain, went to the gull's box, and opened it. The bird stretched its wings and disappeared into the darkness.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19135, 2 October 1936, Page 8
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