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animals herding on the sand-spit, but, as he was in great pain, 

 we had to go on board early. Next morning we started again 

 for the watering-place near the mission and orphanage. The 

 Norwegian, Mr. Brevik, was in charge, and invited us to his 

 house, in one end of which he had many Eskimo children. 



He was teaching the boys to work with our tools, while 

 Mrs. Brevik taught the girls 

 to make their own clothes, 

 to keep themselves and their 

 clothes clean, to make bread, 

 and to make a proper use of 

 white man's food. They also 

 got religious teaching, but 

 not exclusively. They are 

 taught first to be useful to 

 themselves and others, and 

 then, in spare hours, religion. 

 The children seemed to be 

 fond of Mr. and Mrs. Brevik, 

 who certainly were very fond 

 of the children. We spent 

 a very pleasant afternoon at 



the mission, and we were all glad to see the amount of real 

 good which came to the children through the teaching they 

 received. 



We went " gamming," visiting, on board the whaler S.S. 

 William Bailis and a schooner Mary and Ann. We talked about 

 the condition of the ice and the prospects of getting east. 

 They all seemed to think that the ice would be good that year, 

 but they were not very enthusiastic about the idea of going there 

 with a sailing vessel. Captain Bodfish, who commanded the 

 William Bailis, even went so far as to assert that we would not 

 come within fifty miles of his vessel, if he had to tie up on 

 account of the ice. As we wanted to reach Teller and find 

 out whether the provisions which we had bought from Battle 

 Creek Sanatorium had come, we weighed anchor and stood over. 



As answer to a telephone inquiry at Nome we were told 

 that the food was there, and that we had better get it shipped 

 up to Port Clarence, as the beach near Nome was very unsafe, 

 and the Marshal promised to take the matter up. 



S.S. " WILLIAM BAILIS. 



