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the view that there are not in existence any diaries except those of Lorne
Knight and Ada Blackjack.

We go on, then, with our story, basing it on all the information
and documents we now have - the correspondence of members of the expedition with
me and with their friends and families, a few scattered papers written by Milton Galle found on Wrangell
Island, the fragment of diary kept by Ada Blackjack, verbal information given
by Ada Blackjack to me when I talked with her in Seattle in January, 1924,
letters from friends of Ada Blackjack's in Seattle and Alaska to whom she had
givn information which they conveyed to me, a statement made by Ada Blackjack
to E.R. Jordan, now resident in Seattle but formerly of Nome and the man who
engaged her to accompany the Wrangell Island expedition. But chiefly the story
is based upon the two-volume diary of Lorne Knight.