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my advice, for it seemed to me the offer was inadequate. This turned out to be
my mistake inasmuch as no other American publisher made any offer. The manuscript was given
to an agent in England to place with British publishers and was finally by him
sold to the firm of George G. Harrap and Company, who took the book partly on
my urging.

Mr. Noice's situation in New York had now become difficult.
Through my own heavy expenditures in supporting the Wrangell Island expedition
I was not well ill able to continue lending him money and there did not seem to be any
remunerative work to which he could turn. It struck me that if I were to place
him in charge of the supply ship going to Wrangell Island this would give him a
certain amount of prominence which might enable him later to lecture profitably
and perhaps to sell magazine articles telling his aspect of the journey. Before
sailing for England in May I broached this subject and found, as I expected, that Mr.
Noice was very eager for the for the opportunity. I told him I could not make
any definite arrangements then because I had no money but that I was hoping to
raise money in England and would communicate with him by cable either direct or
through the Toronto office of our company.

As the summer dragged on without any financial success for me in
England, my business associate, Mr. A. J. T. Taylor, of Toronto, cabled me offer-
ing personally to pay the expenses of Mr. Noice from New York to Nome in order
that he might be on hand there to take charge of a ship in case I could later get
money in England and cable it direct to Nome. I accepted this offer by cable.

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When. Mr. Noice got the word of Mr. Taylor's proposed loan, he was
recovering from a surgical operation on his shoulder. This shoulder had been dis-
located when he was in Coronation Gulf and had only now been reset. As surgical
operations are costly, I had tried to avoid the expense by suggesting to a friend,
Dr. C. W. Lieb, that he make on Mr. Noice certain dietetic experiments which Dr.
Lieb had wanted to make on me. Other doctors had found that ordinary Americans