WE MEET THE CHURCHES 
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Siberian women are very industrious; they do all 
the housework, of course, sewing and mending the 
skin clothing, and, if need be, they drive the dogs. 
With the conditions now favorable for progress 
along shore, I knew that, with luck, I should be 
able to reach civilization and arrange to have aid 
sent to the men on Wrangell Island. I thought 
about them all the time, however, and worried about 
them; I wondered how the storms which had so 
delayed our progress across Long Strait had af¬ 
fected Munro’s chances of retrieving the supplies 
cached along the ice from Shipwreck Camp and 
getting safely back to the main party, and how the 
men would find life on the island as the weeks went 
by and they separated according to my instructions 
for the hunting which would sooner or later have 
to be their main dependence. 
