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-JOHN E. COCHRAN
-FAMILY ASSOCIATION
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 Home | Sibling's Stories | 1st Cousins | Ancestor's Stories | Reunion History | Next Reunion | JECMEF
 
@@ -41,8 +38,7 @@ along the icebergs and the walrus were 'heisted' on board by the use of the cran
 tons of freight and the beasts were so huge that they made the pulleys just creak. They were
 over 12 feet long, as big around as three cows, had no feet but toenails on their flippers or
 flappers, no head but their body just suddenly ended with a hole for a mouth and big bristles
-[photograph of people standing in snow]
-
+[photograph inserted at right of paragraph]
 all around it similar to a currycomb in coarseness; no ears but huge tusks of ivory. They are
 the most repulsive looking animals imaginable and tho I have always read about them I never
 expect such disagreeable looking creatures. They had a rough brown hairy skin and some of
@@ -50,8 +46,8 @@ them looked warty. They must have weighed two ton at least. Ere we got them back
 to the natives they were getting extremely odiferous—in fact, you could scarcely stay on the
 ship with any degree of comfort unless you had per chance lost your sense of smell.
 
-Then we went north to a few minutes beyond the 70th degree of latitude and thot for awhile
-we would go to Wrangell Island where some men from Steffonsons ship were supposed to be
+Then we went north to a few minutes beyond the 70th degree of latitude and thot [sic] for awhile
+we would go to Wrangell Island where some men from Steffonsons [sic] ship were supposed to be
 stranded but we didn't get there and instead stopped at a small native village at Cape Serdz in
 Siberia. These Eskimo were very primitive. One white squaw man lived there and had for 23
 years. He was a Swede--who else could. Their houses were circular and built up with dirt 2 or
@@ -65,16 +61,16 @@ bears with faces. I guess they had never seen white women, not so many at one ti
 We went ashore in 2 life boats and a launch pulling them. On the launch was a six piece band
 playing and the rear of the last life boat was the movie man. 'Twas very thrilling.
 
-The other place we stopped was at Whalen, a trading post in Siberia. There these 'towerists'[sic]
+The other place we stopped was at Whalen, a trading post in Siberia. There these 'towerists' [sic]
 went wild. They rushed helter-skelter, hither and thither, here and there, trying to find
-something to buy. Prices raised right before your eyes. One would but[sic] something for $1.00
+something to buy. Prices raised right before your eyes. One would [buy?] something for $1.00
 and the next might have to pay $2.00, $4.00 or $10.00. That made no difference. They had to
 have it. One man I was sort of taking care of, tho he had his son along for the purpose,
 bought 2 ivory tusks, 1 pup, 2 moccasins, 3 or 4 billikens, 6 or 8 ivory and silver rings, one
 fishing line, hooks, floats, etc. and two bird slings. The slings have rocks at the end and the
 little natives throw them at the flocks of geese and ducks which fly close over the village and
 the slings entangle their wings and legs, sometimes more than one, and they can't fly. They
-come down and the natives capture them. There was more junk brot aboard than baggage, I
+come down and the natives capture them. There was more junk brot [sic] aboard than baggage, I
 do believe. And they say that at the first stop it was worse than here. The red flag was flying
 over Whalen and the Russian soldiers were there—a few, one or two or three, I forget the
 number.
@@ -83,8 +79,8 @@ We got home yesterday morning at 5 a.m. but missed the first lighter in so had t
 until 2:30. The girls had prepared a big meal for us and invited up the Hartfords and then let
 us talk. Miss Saville talked quite a bit. Any how if you folks don't like this I don't care, it is
 all I had to write about and I know Buster'ud listen anyway and I'd soak ole Peter's head if he
-didn't and Polly would [sit] in my lap and I don't know much about the youngest one of yours so
-likely he would be squawling. But we did surely enjoy our trip and were gone just long enuf.
+didn't and Polly would in my lap and I don't know much about the youngest one of yours so
+likely he would be squawling. But we did surely enjoy our trip and were gone just long enuf [sic].
 
 I expect there were 150 passengers on board and almost or more of the crew and helpers. We
 had a stateroom down next to the kitchen and 'twas pretty fierce for odor at times.
@@ -117,4 +113,4 @@ Reprinted from Cochran Chronicles, Volume 9, Number 1, November 1986
 
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