WE ARRIVE AT EAST CAPE 
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eyes. At Koliuchin Island I had had an Eskimo 
woman make me a cap out of Burberry cloth that 
we had with us, with a three-inch vizor of sealskin, 
supported by copper wire around the rim. I wore 
my hood over this cap and could adjust the vizor at 
any angle; this afforded some relief to my eyes. 
At three o’clock in the afternoon we arrived at 
Cape Serdze. Here we were met by Mr. Wall, 
a Norwegian, of about forty, who was an electrical 
engineer, by profession, had lived in the United 
States and knew people in Boston and New York 
whom I knew. He lived in a very comfortable 
aranga but there was sickness in the house so, with 
apologies for his inability to entertain us, he sent 
us to an aranga owned by a native who went by the 
name of Corrigan, the best-known hunter in Si¬ 
beria. Corrigan showed me some of the results 
of his season’s hunting, which included fifteen or 
twenty fine polar-bear skins and a large number 
of skins of the white fox. He was by far the most 
prosperous native I had met. Mr. Wall sent me 
over some bread and tea and milk, with some ex¬ 
cellent griddle-cakes. 
With Mr. Wall’s assistance I was able to ob¬ 
tain the services of Corrigan to take us to East 
Cape, a distance of about ninety miles. I left here 
everything that would be of no further use to us, 
for I knew now that during the remainder of our 
