. The last voyage of the Karluk, flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Canadian Arctic expedition of 1913-16. to and we were soon alongside. I lookedsharply at the men on her deck; her own crew wasfairly large, but soon I could pick out Munro andMcKinlay and Chafe, and of course the Eskimofamily, and I knew that our quest was over. Aboat was lowered from the Bear, with LieutenantMiller in charge; I obtained permission from thecaptain to go along and was soon on board theKing and Winge, among the Karluk party. All of you here? was my first question. McKinlay was the spokesman. No, he an-swered; M
. The last voyage of the Karluk, flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Canadian Arctic expedition of 1913-16. to and we were soon alongside. I lookedsharply at the men on her deck; her own crew wasfairly large, but soon I could pick out Munro andMcKinlay and Chafe, and of course the Eskimofamily, and I knew that our quest was over. Aboat was lowered from the Bear, with LieutenantMiller in charge; I obtained permission from thecaptain to go along and was soon on board theKing and Winge, among the Karluk party. All of you here? was my first question. McKinlay was the spokesman. No, he an-swered; Malloch and Mamen and Breddy died onthe island. There was nothing to be said. I had not reallyexpected to see the mates party or the Mackayparty, for I had long since ceased to believe thatthere was any reasonable chance that they couldhave got through to a safe place, but though it washard to be forced to what appeared the inevitableconclusion in their case, it was an especially sad andbitter blow to learn that three of the men whom Ihad seen arrive at WrangeU Island had thus reachedsafety only to Q » ?< J 05 M ^ ^^ (6 .§ h^ H +j O ?9 !zi ?ti <J g 03 ^ i o ^•^ CD H g=i Iz; OJ O § Ph & ;r CS o !2i 1—1 in ?<3 s H -§ H ^ H G Pi a «t « ^ £ w J3 w £ H O J3 ^ ^ O 3 o Eil b ^ o <a QQ J3 W H ?%a M ?* m a H THE RESCUE FROM WRANGELL ISLAND 315 None of the three could well be spared. Breddyhad been a careful and efficient worker in all thestruggles we had gone through since the storm hadcarried us away in the previous September,Mamen was a great companion, indoors or out; heespecially excelled in all athletic sports that de-manded fearlessness and endurance, and he was,besides this, a devoted and helpful associate. Atone time, in fact, I had had it in mind to send himto the Siberian coast with Kataktovick in my stead,if the injury to his knee-cap had not incapacitatedhim, and, if he had been able to start on such ajourney, I feel confident that he would have
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