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Blackjack -11-

equipment, though this fact would have to be checked. (They had some dogs)

A RECOLLECTION ON MY PART---Coming down from Lake Placid
on the day train in November of 1925, I picked up a newspaper
lying beside me on the seat. It might have been the "Syracuse
Herald". In it I remember a story---an appeal for funds to
aid Ada Blackjack and her son "only survivor of the Wrangel
Island etc etc."

FINALLY, SOME RANDOM NOTES---

To buck even the memory of so big and noted a man as
Stefansson would, it seems, be difficult, and yet background
for the Diary could not help but be somewhat derogatory to
him.

Although Noice had been a fur trader and explorer for
a number of years on his own, his rescue trip to Wrangel was
officially undertaken for Stefansson. The Englishman, Griffith
Brewer, provided the funds for the relief expedition. (See
Noice's letter to Brewer--Envelope A.)

Wrangel Island is roughly 100 by 60 miles wide. It lies
about 650 miles west of Nome, Alaska and about 100 miles north
of the Siberian shore line. It is necessary to pass through
the Bering straits to reach it. The distance here is only
51 miles between Russia and the U. S. (See map).

THOSE IN THE COLONY

Knight
Crawford
Galle (?) as Ada spells it
Maurer (again Ada)
Ada Blackjack

The names can all be acsertained of course.