Although he was bone-weary from the grueling seventeen days it had taken to get here, he struggled to sleep, thinking about the Karluk survivors on Wrangel Island. “I thought about them all the time,” the captain wrote in his diary. “And I worried about them; I wondered how the storms which had so delayed our progress across Long Strait had affected Munro’s chances of retrieving the supplies … from Shipwreck Camp and getting safely back to the main party, and how the men would find life on the island as the weeks went by and they separated according to my instructions for the hunting which
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