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CHAPTER XXVII 
WITH BARON KLEIST TO EMMA HARBOR 
At Emma Town I found the brother of the Mr. 
Caraieff whom I had met at Cape North. I pre¬ 
sented my letter of introduction and was hospit¬ 
ably received. Mr. Caraieff, I found, was a grad¬ 
uate of a college at Vladivostock. He was able 
to carry on a conversation with me in quite in¬ 
telligible English and had no difficulty in under¬ 
standing me. He invited me to stay at his home 
as long as I liked. I thanked him but said that I 
must get over to the American shore as soon 
as possible. 
We talked over ways and means. The ice in 
Bering Strait, I found, had broken up so that I 
should be unable to get across by sledge; later on 
I could get a whaleboat, he said, with some Eskimo, 
to take me across to the Diomede Islands and from 
there another whale-boat or a skin-boat to get 
across to Cape Prince of Wales. That would be 
some time in May, just when would depend en¬ 
tirely on the amount of ice in the waters of the 
Strait. The present was a kind of between-season 
time when it was too late for sledges and too early 
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