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attitude appeared in one part of the American continent (about 1820) it spread
rapidly to every other part. Similarly, the success of a London
to Tokyoflight would almost instantaneously change the world's
point of view with regard to the polar regions, making those lands
coveted that hsd previously been despised, and that no matter how
far they lay from the routes immediately practicable commercially.

It was these conversations with Captain Hadley that
led to the first tentative formulation of the plans of the Wrangell Island Expedition
which eventually sailed north. Unfortunatley, Hadley could not be
in command of it, for he died in San Francisco on influenza during
the gret edpisemic of 1916-1919.