Excerpt from The Palm of Alpha Tau Omega, Vol. 55: January, 1935Early on the morning of July 24 after five weeks en route from Portland, Maine we were on the last leg of our journey to the Buttons. The weather was clear and calm and a comparatively small amount of ice was then in the straits, ideal conditions for making a landing. The trip was so arranged as to arrive at the islands at dead low water.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.