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@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ Nome Alaska August 26, 1923
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My Dear Ethel et al.
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[photograph of a group of people standing on snow with poles/sled gear]
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I don't know when I did write or when you did
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but I am going to write now however and never
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the less. But I wish I could talk (I can yet but I
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@@ -38,7 +40,6 @@ along the icebergs and the walrus were 'heisted' on board by the use of the cran
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tons of freight and the beasts were so huge that they made the pulleys just creak. They were
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over 12 feet long, as big around as three cows, had no feet but toenails on their flippers or
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flappers, no head but their body just suddenly ended with a hole for a mouth and big bristles
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[photograph inserted at right of paragraph]
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all around it similar to a currycomb in coarseness; no ears but huge tusks of ivory. They are
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the most repulsive looking animals imaginable and tho I have always read about them I never
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expect such disagreeable looking creatures. They had a rough brown hairy skin and some of
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@@ -46,8 +47,8 @@ them looked warty. They must have weighed two ton at least. Ere we got them back
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to the natives they were getting extremely odiferous—in fact, you could scarcely stay on the
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ship with any degree of comfort unless you had per chance lost your sense of smell.
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Then we went north to a few minutes beyond the 70th degree of latitude and thot [sic] for awhile
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we would go to Wrangell Island where some men from Steffonsons [sic] ship were supposed to be
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Then we went north to a few minutes beyond the 70th degree of latitude and thot for awhile
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we would go to Wrangell Island where some men from Steffonsons ship were supposed to be
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stranded but we didn't get there and instead stopped at a small native village at Cape Serdz in
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Siberia. These Eskimo were very primitive. One white squaw man lived there and had for 23
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years. He was a Swede--who else could. Their houses were circular and built up with dirt 2 or
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@@ -61,7 +62,7 @@ bears with faces. I guess they had never seen white women, not so many at one ti
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We went ashore in 2 life boats and a launch pulling them. On the launch was a six piece band
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playing and the rear of the last life boat was the movie man. 'Twas very thrilling.
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The other place we stopped was at Whalen, a trading post in Siberia. There these 'towerists' [sic]
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The other place we stopped was at Whalen, a trading post in Siberia. There these 'towerists'
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went wild. They rushed helter-skelter, hither and thither, here and there, trying to find
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something to buy. Prices raised right before your eyes. One would [buy?] something for $1.00
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and the next might have to pay $2.00, $4.00 or $10.00. That made no difference. They had to
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@@ -70,7 +71,7 @@ bought 2 ivory tusks, 1 pup, 2 moccasins, 3 or 4 billikens, 6 or 8 ivory and sil
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fishing line, hooks, floats, etc. and two bird slings. The slings have rocks at the end and the
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little natives throw them at the flocks of geese and ducks which fly close over the village and
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the slings entangle their wings and legs, sometimes more than one, and they can't fly. They
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come down and the natives capture them. There was more junk brot [sic] aboard than baggage, I
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come down and the natives capture them. There was more junk brot aboard than baggage, I
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do believe. And they say that at the first stop it was worse than here. The red flag was flying
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over Whalen and the Russian soldiers were there—a few, one or two or three, I forget the
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number.
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@@ -80,7 +81,7 @@ until 2:30. The girls had prepared a big meal for us and invited up the Hartford
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us talk. Miss Saville talked quite a bit. Any how if you folks don't like this I don't care, it is
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all I had to write about and I know Buster'ud listen anyway and I'd soak ole Peter's head if he
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didn't and Polly would in my lap and I don't know much about the youngest one of yours so
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likely he would be squawling. But we did surely enjoy our trip and were gone just long enuf [sic].
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likely he would be squawling. But we did surely enjoy our trip and were gone just long enuf.
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I expect there were 150 passengers on board and almost or more of the crew and helpers. We
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had a stateroom down next to the kitchen and 'twas pretty fierce for odor at times.
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