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Here we found ten or a dozen arangas and visi¬ 
ble signs of prosperity. r A. young man came out 
on our approach and said, “Me speek ’em plenty 
English. Me know Nome. Me know trader 
well. Me spend long time East Cape. You come 
in aranga. Me speak ’em plenty. You get plenty 
eat here.” 
We went in. It was a well-appointed Siberian 
home, occupied jointly by two young men and their 
families. The men were deer men, with fine 
herds of reindeer twelve or fourteen days’ journey 
into the interior. We had some tea and some 
frozen deer meat. Then the women cooked us 
some seal meat, which was excellent. The older 
man’s wife made flapjacks out of flour and they 
tasted good. 
These people had evidently heard about us and 
they knew our desire to get to East Cape, for after 
we had finished eating, the native who had first 
greeted us said, “I bring you East Cape; how 
much?” 
I asked him how many dogs he had. He told 
me, and said he had a good sledge, too, and could 
get us to East Cape in five days, if we were to start 
at once. 
I had with me forty-five dollars which Mr. 
Hadley had lent me when I left Wrangell Is¬ 
land. Naturally I wanted to keep this sum intact 
