The Donaldson had arrived.

Its crew member Harold Noice, an associate of Stefansson’s, was among those who came ashore.

They found Knight’s shelter and the decomposing body.

Then they found Ada Blackjack.

In the first words they exchanged, as one account put it, they both understood the full gravity of what had happened: the woman who had been hired as a seamstress and treated as a servant was the last one standing.

Every man was dead.