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A RELIEF EXPEDITION, 
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large, a very large letter. Old Noah thus carried a mail, perhaps 
a European mail. At once he became in our eyes a man of 
importance. After being stormed for a time with questions, he 
took from a bag which hung from his neck the ordinary pieces 
of board fastened together, which here serve as a postbag. They 
were found however to contain only a letter of a couple of lines 
from a Russian official at Nischni Kolymsk, without any news 
NOAH ELISEJ. 
(After a photograph by L. Palander.) 
from Europe, but informing us that chief Noah Elisej was sent 
to us to assist us, if necessary. Noah first patted his stomach 
to indicate that he was hungry and wanted food, and hawked 
and pointed with his finger at his throat to let us know that a 
mm would taste well. He then told us something which we did 
not then exactly understand, but which we now have reason to 
interpret as a statement that Noah was the leader of an expedition 
