stefansson-wrangel-09-32-061r

this page contains two black and white photographs of pages from Milton Galle's diary fragments

left photograph transcript:
C SKINS SEAL DUCKS
FLY BY I SHOOT NO LUCK
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1 SEAL UPON BEACH
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(SNOW) CHIPPY LOST
WIND W. A.M. SE P.M.
MORE CANDY FISSEG
BED 4 P.M.
IVORY AT LAKE
MASTADON TUSK 1/2
IN RIVER BOTTOM
LOWER JAW WALLRUS
ON TUNDRA. C. THINKS
LAKE BACK OF ONE TO
EAST

right photograph transcript:
two ridge poles six uprights
two to come into kitchen tent.
uprights 9 feet ridges 26
rafters slant up to ridges
crosspoles on top. taken
about 30 odd rafters 11 ft long
ridges 4 ft apart, door to face
south. location not best
(I think) but C+K very likely have
own reasons. Open water
3/4 mile W camp to past harbor M[-i-]
use of doay probable must
have strong W wind for possibility
On way back K tells me that
they (C + K) were probably going to Nome
next spring, does not say why.
Tells me will need lots money
asks if I have any. Will loan all

The caption of the photographs reads:
LEFT—SPECIMEN PAGE OF THE MEMORANDA KEPT BY GALLE FROM WHICH HE LATER WROTE UP HIS REGULAR DIARY, AS
DESCRIBED IN THE TEXT. RIGHT—PHOTOGRAPH, ENLARGED, OF A PAGE OF GALLE'S NOTES ON WHICH HE BASED THE TYPED
DIARY WHICH HE MENTIONS AND WHICH ADA BLACKJACK HAS DESCRIBED. THE LAST LINES SHOW HOW THE NEWS OF
THE PROPOSED TRIP TO NOME FIRST CAME TO GALLE. TRANSCRIBED, THE LINES ARE: “ON WAY BACK K(NIGHT) TELLS
ME THAT THEY (K(NIGHT) AND C(RAWFORD)) WERE PROBABLY GOING TO NOME NEXT SPRING. DOES NOT SAY WHY.
TELLS ME WILL NEED LOTS MONEY. ASKS IF I HAVE ANY. WILL LOAN ALL (I HAVE).” THIS ENTRY WAS MADE UNDER
DATE OF SEPTEMBER 28, 1922.