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Three women went on the expedition, traveling on the Sachem III.

MacMillan would not allow women on the Bowdoin until 1938 when his wife, Miriam, joined him at the insistence of the crew.

The women were Mary Metcalf, wife of the owner of the Sachem III and daughter of MacMillan’s friend and botanist Charles Sewall; Marion Smith of Wiscasset, the great-granddaughter of the first Governor of Maine, William King; and Maude Fisher, Rowe Metcalf’s cousin.