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It was these conversations with Captain Hadley that
led me to formulate the plans of the Wrangell Island Expedition that event-
ually sailed north. Unfortunatley, Hadley could not be in command of it,
for he died in San Francisco of influenza during the great epidemic of
1918-19. Had he been the leader, the trafic story we have yet to tell
would certainly have been very different and probably very far from [].