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seen scattered through the village or whitening in the stagnant pools 

 from which the people procure their drinking water. 



A white man living in the village with a native wife says that during 

 the time of the epidemic he was disturbed for several nights by a noise 

 around his house. Thinking that it was a dog prowling around for 

 something to eat he got up, and, arming himself with a club, went out 

 to investigate. In place of a dog he found a little four-year-old boy 

 picking up scraps of shoe leather and sealskin to eat. Upon seeing the 

 man the child fled home. He was followed, and found to be, with his 

 little brother, the only living occupants of the hut. But in the same 

 room lay the corpses of father and mother and the maternal grand- 

 father. The man took the boys to his own home. 



Oil August 10 we got under way at 3.30 a. m. At 9.25, the fog lifting, 

 we made out East Cape. At 11.45 p. in. we rounded south point of 

 East Cape> and at 1.20 on the morning of the 17th came to anchor oil' 

 the village <>f Enmatowan, Siberia. 



At 1.20 p. m. Lieutenant White returned on board and reported his 

 cam]) at East Cape Village. The ship was at once got under way and 

 steamed around to East Cape, where Lieutenant White's party were 

 taken on board and the native Siberians who had assisted him were 

 paid off, also Siberian Jack who had acted as interpreter to the ship. 



At 8 p. m. the ship got under way, steaming to the northwest. 



August IS, at 2.15 a. m. passed Enchowan. At 1 a. m. we noticed 

 large quantities of ice packed in along shore. At 0.30 a. m. ice appeared 

 in the distance, and at 7.30 the ship entered it. Finding it too heavy 

 to proceed we turned around and returned to anchorage off Enmatowan 

 village on the south side of East Cape, where we dropped anchor at 

 3.55 p. m. 



On August 19, getting under way, we steamed around to East Cape 

 village; at 8.25 a. in. stood across to the Diomedes, encountering con- 

 siderable floating ice; at 9.15 a. m. cleared the ice, and at 11.30 stopped 

 off big Diomede village. At 12.20 p. m. we started for Teller Reindeer 

 Station, where we came to anchor at 10.30 p. m. The evening of the 

 21st Mr. and Mrs. V. Gambell, teachers and missionaries for St. Law- 

 rence Island, were taken on board, and on the morning of the 22d Mr. 

 Lopp's supplies were received for Cape Prince of Wales. At 10.10 a. in. 

 the ship got under way for the Cape. 



At 4 p. m. spoke the whaler Northern Light, Captain McKenna 

 master, and we secured papers as late as July 3. At 5.50 p. in. we 

 were under way again, and at 7.30 p. in. dropped anchor off Cape Prince 

 of Wales. I went ashore and visited Mr. Thornton's grave as a beau- 

 tiful moon was appearing above the mountain tops. Returned on board 

 at 10 p. m., and at 10.1") p. m. the ship was under way for St. Lawrence 

 Island. 



August 23, passed Kings Island. There being no landing at St. 

 Lawrence Island, the ship was headed for Indian Point, Siberia, where 



