812 THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE KARLUK 
I had luncheon with Mr. Linderberg. He was 
well aware of my extreme uneasiness about the con¬ 
tinued delay and told me that he had decided to 
send the Corwin to Wrangell Island after the men; 
she had formerly been in the revenue cutter service 
and, as I have already noted, had made an inter¬ 
esting trip to Wrangell in the early eighties. 
While ashore to see Mr. Linderberg I ran across 
Mr. Swenson, of the King and Winge, in Mr. Gog- 
gin’s store, a great rendezvous in Nome, and 
learned from him that he was about to start for 
the Siberian coast on a trading and walrus-hunt¬ 
ing trip. I asked him, if he went anywhere near 
Wrangell Island, to call and see if the men had 
been taken off and he promised that he would do 
so. I sent a telegram to Ottawa to let the authori¬ 
ties know that the Corwin was going to try to reach 
the island and that the King and Winge would be in 
that vicinity, too, and would call there if she could. 
The Bear finished her coaling at nine o’clock on 
the morning of the fourth and then had to spend 
the next few hours taking on water. At one o’clock 
an onshore wind sprang up and I went off to the 
ship. We got away at ten minutes past two but 
spent all the next day at Port Clarence, looking 
for water. I was feeling easier in my mind now 
because I felt sure that Mr. Swenson would go 
