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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.