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make up a coherent narrative from connected story out of Milton Galle's notes but shall
merely take up the most important items which he mentions that have
not been mentioned by the others, and the most important confirm-
ations of both the Lorne Knight's diary and of Ada Blackjack's state-
ment which she dictated to Mr. Jordon and which is reprinted else-
where in this book. We shall also mention certain confirmations
of verbal statements made by Ada Blackjack to others than Mr.
Jordon, statements which are not on record except in personal
letters written to me by those with whom she talked in Seattle
and Los Angeles.

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From incidental references by Galle in three or four places we
have confirmation of what Ada Blackjack told several people,
that Galle he had occupied much of his time in writing, for he speaks
of copying [] two keeping two diaries. One he refers to
as his "notebook." This was evidently kept in longhand. The other
he speaks of as "the loose-leaf" and tells us that he occupied
certain days in copying the written diary (the notebook) with a
typewriter into his loose-leaf. This also gives incidental con-
firmsation of what Ada Blackjack says 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 all their diaries.
We now think what a an especial pity it is that, when with Galle is was keeping his
diary Being kept in duplicate, that he did 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 possibility that they might not