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his loose-leaf. This also confirms what Ada Black has said in
describing the outfitting of the three men when they eventually left
Wrangell Island over the ice, for she noticed that they packed up and
took along many diary volumes. We now think what an especial pity
it is that, with Galle’s diary being kept in duplicate, he did nt
not leave on the island either the written or the typed copy. That
he did not do so is one of the many proofs that when they were
starting out it did not occur to them to reckon with the possibil-
ity that they might not reach Siberia safely.

With regard to the game on the island the summer 1922,
we find in Galle’s notes in the main only confirmation of what
Lorne Knight's diary tells, although there are certain fragments
of additional information. On August 21st, for instance, Galle
records that they had seen fourteen bears, five of which were cubs.
This is a larger number of bears than mentioned by Knight for any
day that summer. The implication is either that he forgot to make
the entry or else that Galle had not told him about these bears -
possibly because they did not meet until Knight had already written
up his diary for the day.

With regard to the condition and movements of the sea
ice we get no additional information from Galle’s notes, but they
do throw a good deal of light on what the party were thinking about
the ice. It seems that generally when the weather was thick so they
could see only a few hundred yards from the beach, they concluded
from the noises they heard of distant waves and from the motion of
cakes along the beach that the ice was going away from the land or
had gone away. But whenever the weather cleared they could see that