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they might make a journey out in that direction the latter part
of the winter 1921-1922. I have therefore been surprised both that they did
not make such a journey and that Knight’s diary has no discussion
of why they did not. Likely enough this is one of the subjects
which was frequently talked about but never got mentioned in any the
diary. that is preserved to us.

But what they probably had more in their minds than the
exploration of an unknown area to the north was the definite report
by Hadley, McKinlay and others who believed said that they had seen a large new land
to the northeast of Wrangell Island and had wratched it from Waring
Point during the summer of 1914 while the snow gradually disappeared
from the slopes under the influence of the sun. Maurer had not seen this land, for he had been at
Rodger’s Harbor at the time but he had heard all about it from the
party who were at Waring Point. Likely enough
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The testimony of Hadley and McKinlay on this subject along with
McKinlay’s drawings of the land seen, was publishedin the Geograph-
ical Review of the American Geographical Society, ,1920.
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Galle may have feared that they were going to steal a march on
him, leaving him behind on the island while they distinguished them-
selves by the discovery andexploration of a new land.

Maurer had not seen this land, for he had been at
Rodger’s Harbor at the time but he had heard all about it from the
party who were at Waring Point.

We infer from the underscoring that Galle was especially
puzzled by Knight’s telling him that he wished he did not have to
go on this journey but that he had to. We can think of two
reasons for Knight's saying that. It may have been that Knight's feeling when he spoke to
Galle was that he felt he would rather not leave the island but that he
felt he had would have to be a member of any par ty that left because of his
greater experience in traveling over moving ice. Or it may be that