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"Hadley, McKinlay, Kurraluk, Keruk (his wife) and their two chil- 

 dren, Williamson, Chafe and Williams were found at Cape Waring. 

 Had it not been for Hadley and Kurraluk, both skillful and indefati- 

 gable hunters, probably the whole party would have starved, as their 

 rations had given out three months before. They had abandoned hope 

 of rescue for that year; their flimsy tents were torn and full of holes, 

 and their food supply, with the exception of a few fish, was practically 

 exhausted. They had no way of knowing whether or not Captain 

 Bartlett and his Eskimo had reached Siberia, but they did know 

 that Wrangel Island sometimes is utterly inaccessible. Only three dogs 

 of their original twenty were left, and but one sled of their original 

 three. The rest had been lost, with their precious loads, in the water 

 between Wrangel and Herald islands. They had matches, but their 

 clothing was woefully inadequate. And only that morning they had 

 planned to move to the other side of the island, and 'go into winter 

 quarters,' as Hadley expressed it. But a snowstorm, which hampered 

 the progress of the King and Winge, had delayed the move. For this 

 we were in the end very grateful, for to search the island for the sur- 

 vivors would have been like looking for the proverbial needle. 



"I had left a note at Rodgers Harbor for any boat which might 

 come after us, and we had left the tent standing as a beacon. McKinlay 

 now left another note tied to the tent pole, and I left still another on 

 a pole at the edge of the ice. Which reminds me that all Jafet Linde- 

 berg had to show for the fifteen thousand dollars he is said to have 

 spent in outfitting the Corwin were these two notes of mine — and the 

 consciousness of having done more than his duty in the circumstances. 

 Each of us had feared for the safety of the Karluh survivors, but quite 

 independently, as we had not seen each other in more than a year. 



"Once on board each member of the party was furnished with the 

 first bath and change of clothing he had had in more than seven months. 

 Then came light and nourishing food, the relation of tales that would 

 fill a volume, music on the phonograph, more food and coffee (and con- 

 densed milk, which they ate as if it were ice cream), and then repose on 

 mattresses of dozens of reindeer skins. The next day, after the gallant 

 King and Winge had won her way out of the ice, we met the Bear 

 with Captain Bartlett aboard. Swenson was then headed for Nome with 

 the rescued survivors, but now Captain Bartlett boarded the King and 

 Winge and informed him that he would take his former charges aboard 

 the Bear, which would take them to Nome. That, by the way, is why 

 many people think the Bear rescued the Karluk survivors, because the 

 dispatch that was sent out by the Associated Press merely mentioned 

 that the 'Bear had arrived at Nome with the rescued Karluk survivors 

 aboard.' The Bear, a wonderful ship in the ice, and Captain Cochran, 

 her master, deserve praise for their three attempts, but it is to Swenson 

 and Captain Jochimsen, his sailing master, that the credit for the rescue 

 belongs." 



