WITH BARON KLEIST 
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when he tried to explain it to me his English proved 
unequal to the occasion. 
Several times during the day we stopped to have 
tea. At one place the Eskimo told us that they 
had seen or heard of a whaler at Indian Point. 
The master was Captain Pederson, they said, but 
when they described the ship, their account did not 
tally with the description of the Elvira , the ship 
that Captain Pederson commanded when the Kar - 
luk left Nome. It was afterwards to be made 
known to me that the Elvira had been crushed and 
sunk off the northern coast of Alaska the previous 
fall, during the stormy season when we were being 
driven offshore in the Karhik, and that Captain 
Pederson had made his way overland to Fairbanks, 
had thence gone to San Francisco and taken com¬ 
mand of another ship, the Herman . 
After we left the ice of Chechokium we crossed 
the divide to Emma Harbor. The mist lay low 
over the high mountains on the peninsula between 
Emma Harbor and Providence Bay. From time 
to time the wind would roll this mist away and 
reveal the peaks, stern and forbidding. The going 
up the divide was steep and we had a hard climb; 
when we got to the top I could look down to 
Emma Harbor and see open water out into Provi¬ 
dence Bay. The land was white with snow and the 
