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a day later the King and Winge met the Bear thirty or forty miles from Wrangell,
and transferred to her (and to Captain Bartlett who was on board the Bear) the
men she had picked up. The Corwin (the same that had visited Wrangell Island
in 1881, but now a private ship sent out by a friend of mine, Mr. Jafet
Lindeberg) arrived at the island a day later to find the fresh traces of the
luckier King and Winge.

Meantime the crew of the Karluk had spent the summer on Wrangell
Island, formally reaffirming possession of it for the British Empire according
to our instructions from the Canadian Government, and keeping the flag flying
for more than six months. That in itself is a long story of adventure and
unfortunately also of tragedy. We can tell it best from two manuscripts. The
one we shall mainly use is written by Jack Hadley, then a member of the company
of the Karluk but later captain of the schooner Polar Bear of our expedition.
We shall use as [For] an introduction to Hadley's story we shall take a magazine article written by
one of his comrades of the shipwrecked crew, Frederick W. Maurer, who later
played such an important part in the story of Wrangell Island.

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