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left Lorin E. Knight, of McMinnville, Ore., who died June 20 last as a result of
scurvy. Crawford, Maurer and Gale left the island with feed for their dogs for
seventeen days, but with little provisions for themselves, Knight was too ill to
travel and was left in the care of the Eskimo woman.

Stefansson sent the expedition to Wangel Island in the early summer of 1921,
provisioned for a stay of one year. The 1922 season was one of the worst known in
years in the Arctic, however, and a daring attempt by Capt. Joe Bernard to reach the
island in the power schooner Teddy Bear was blocked by the ice pack. The pack had
failed to move out. Bernard barely escaped from the Arctic before winter closed down.

Noice Ordered to Rescue.

Stefansson this summer engaged Captain Noice, former Broadway High School boy, who
had been one of his lieutenants in the first Stefansson expedition, to go to the rescue
of the party marooned on Wrangel Island. Noice purchased the power schooner Donaldson
and sailed into the Arctic, reaching the Island after a severe and dangerous voyage.

The first Stefansson expedition went north in 1913 in the steamship Karluk. It
was sent into the Arctic by the Cnadian government for exploration work, sailing from
Victoria, B. C., in the summer of that year. Maurer was a fireman on the Karluk.
Capt. Robert Bartlett, second in command of the Peary expedition which discovered the
North Pole, was master of the Karluk.

In September, 1913, the Karluk reached Point Barrow, dropping anchor off that
settlement. Stefansson and several of his followers went ashore to hunt. While they
were gone a great storm swept the Arctic Coast. It carried the Karluk north into
the outer ice of the vast polar pack. The ice closed around and imprisoned the ship,
carrying her hundreds of miles away from Point Borrow.

Ship Shattered by Ice.

In January, 1914, the pressure of the ice pack shattered the Karluk. Those
aboard numbered twenty-four. It was necessary to abandon the wreck and strike out