WE MEET THE CHURCHES 
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After the walrus meat we had more tea. I had 
about a hundred saccharine tablets with me, so when 
the fresh tea was brought in I used them all up 
in it. 
I could see that the Siberians were puzzled about 
Kataktovick. They talked about him and to him; 
at first, I am quite sure, they did not think that he 
was an Eskimo. They evidently took me for a 
trader, though they had not seen me go up the 
coast. The sledge was all bundled up, so that they 
could not see what I had, and rather lightly loaded, 
so that apparently I had sold my goods and was now 
working down the coast on my homeward journey. 
They were in evident doubt about Kataktovick, be¬ 
cause he and they could not understand each other’s 
speech. He would talk to them in the language 
of the Alaskan Eskimo and they would put up their 
hands and touch their faces to show that they did 
not understand. Then they would talk to him and 
he, in turn, would throw up his hands and say, 
“Me no savvy.” 
After we had finished our second round of tea, 
they made signs to show that they wanted to know 
where we came from. I took out my charts, 
showed them where we drifted, pointed out Wran¬ 
gell Island and told them of the men there, showed 
them where the ship sank and where we had just 
landed. I first made a ship out of matches. 
