120 THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE KARLUK 
and landed upon by Capt. Kellett of H. M. S. 
Herald, in 1849; it is about 4% miles long N. W. 
and S. E. and, being a solid mass of granite about 
900 feet high, is almost inaccessible. Lieut. 
Hooper, of the U. S. S. Corwin, also landed on it, 
in 1881, and by barometer determined the height 
of its highest peak, near the southeastern end, to 
be 1200 feet.” 
Mr. Hadley and I got into an argument about 
something—I never could recall just what it was— 
and bet a good dinner on it, payable when we got 
to Victoria. I remember that I lost the bet but 
I still owe it, because when we finally reached Vic¬ 
toria many months later we had forgotten all about 
it! Mr. Hadley was one of our most valuable 
members because he could do so many things of 
direct use to us in our emergency. He was the 
oldest man of the party—fifty-seven—an English¬ 
man by birth, who had left England when a lad and 
been pretty much all over the world, in a variety 
of occupations, which included a term of enlistment 
in the United States navy. 
I sent three men out on the twenty-eighth to see 
how the trail made by the mate’s and Mamen’s par¬ 
ties was lasting; they returned late in the day and 
reported an alteration and said that they had been 
unable to pick up the trail again beyond the break. 
So the next day I sent them out again, with Mr. 
