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26 THE ADVENTURE OF WRANGEL ISLAND

flying for more than six months. That in itself is a long
story of adventure and, unfortunately, also of tragedy.
We can tell it best from two manuscripts. The one we
shall mainly use is written by Jack Hadley, then a mem-
ber of the company of the Karluk, but later captain of
the schooner Polar Bear, of our expedition. For an intro-
duction to Hadley’s story, we shall take a magazine article
written by one of his comrades of the shipwrecked crew,
Frederick W. Maurer, who later played such an impor-
tant part in the story of Wrangel Island.