stefansson-wrangel-09-23

SEPT 28

7 A.M. Clear sunout maybe nice day go to [?]. 10 C makes me "[three? words illegible] (quite diff than expected [?] D was too harsh in judgement) sometime later am informed that going to build winter camp, go W to 1st harbor mouth. start camp. [shof?]:

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two ridge poles six uprights two to come into kitchen tent. Uprights 9 feet ridges 26 rafters slant [?y] to ridges cross [falls] on top, taken about 30 odd rafters 11 ft long ridges 4 ft apart, door to face south. Location not best (I think) but C+K very likely have own reasons. Open water 3/4 mile W camp to far harbor W. Use of dory probable must have strong W wind for [possibility] On way back K tells me that they (C + K) were probably going to Nome next spring, does not say why. Tells me will need lots money asks if I have any. Will loan all

Photograph, enlarged Three Times of a page of Galle's notes on which he based the typed diary which he mentions and which Ada Blackjack has described. The last lines show how the news of the proposed trip to Nome first came to Galle. Transcribed, the lines are: "On way back K[night] tells me that they (K[night] and C[rawford]) were probably going to Nome next spring. Does not say why. Tells me will need lots money. Asks if I have any. Will loan all [I have]." This entry was made under date of September 28, 1922.

Will A - am [?ate] now, they will not go to Nome or even Siberia. We shall awaite developments. Was informed (K) he would not like to go but had to. Evening make suggestion to all [?] two uprights in kitchen one by stove 1 end of C bunk, Have [line] [Gales] outside tents slanting up to ridge on opposite side from which they rest - cross above tents (kitchen) + have ridges fastened to that. Believe better than other system; will also help keep ridges coming closer together. Suggestion taken as insult.