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we had met came in and at his invitation I went 
with him back to his aranga. Here we had a gen¬ 
uine meal—Russian bread, salmon, tea and milk. 
I explained to him what we were doing and how the 
ship was lost. At East Cape, he said, he had a 
brother who would look after us and make us com¬ 
fortable; he gave me a letter of introduction to his 
brother. Their name was Caraieff. As for him¬ 
self he was bound further westward on a trading 
trip to Cape Jakan. In ten days he would be 
back again at Cape North and he urged me to wait 
until then; he had two fine teams of dogs that 
would be of great assistance to us. I declined his 
invitation, however, for I was anxious to get on 
and had an idea that after I got to East Cape I 
should go to Anadyr and send my message to 
Ottawa from the Russian wireless station there, 
mentioned on my chart. If I had known enough 
about the Siberian coast I could have gone direct 
from Cape North to Anadyr southeast across the 
Chukchi Peninsula in about the time that it took 
me to get from Cape North to East Cape. 
I spent a very comfortable night in the aranga 
occupied by Mr. Caraieff. It was rather warm but 
I shed some of my clothing and lay down on a deer¬ 
skin, spread out on the bed-platform. Mr. Cara¬ 
ieff and I attempted to converse before dropping 
off to sleep but he spoke very little English and 
