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When the Karluk was about to sink, as Hadley will pre-
sently relate, there were aboard of her twenty white men, two Eskimo men,
an eskimo woman and two children, who were eventually divided into three
parties. Captain Bartlett led safely ashore in Wrangell Island the
following: G. Breddy, firemen, Ernest F. Chafe, cabin boy, John Hadley,
William Laird McKinlay, magnetician, George Mallooh, geologist, Djarne
Mamen, assistant to the geologist, Frederick W. Maurer fireman, John Munro, Chief
Engineer, Robert Templeman, steward, H. Williams, sailor, Robert J. William-
son, second engineer, the Eskimos Kataktovik and Kurraluk, the latter's
wife Keruk, and their two little daughters Makperk and Helen. Because of
a difference of opinion as to methods and plans, Captain Bartlett permitted
at their own request that four men should separate themselves to go, as they
intended, first to Wrangell Island and then across Siberia to Petrograd,
using "Shackleton methods of travel as developed in the Antarctic."
These were A. Forbed Mackey, surgeon, James Murray, oceanographer, Henri
Beuchat, anthropologist, and S. Stanley Morris, sailor. Beyond the pathetic
details which Hadley gives, nothing further was ever heard of them. Four
men acting under the Captain's instructions were sent towards Herals
Island - Alexander Anderson, first mate, Charles Barker, second mate,
John Brady, sailor, and A. King, sailor. These were also never heard of
again, and/beyond Hadley's reasonable conjectures, there is nothing known.

Hadley's story beging at a point about seventy-five
miles northeast from Wrangell Island where the Karluk had arrived after a
thousand-mile drift since she was frozen in four months before north of eastern Alaska.