CHAPTER XXVIII 
IN TOUCH WITH THE WORLD AGAIN 
On the morning of May 19 an Eskimo whom we 
had sent over to John Holland Bay came back 
and said that the Herman had been there, but had 
left for Cape Bering, so I sent word there to see 
if I could catch the captain. While he was on 
his way there, however, he heard through the natives 
of my being at Emma Harbor and on the after¬ 
noon of the twenty-first I was delighted to see the 
Herman come steaming in. 
I did not need to be told that she was there for 
me and went aboard at once. The captain greeted 
me hospitably and made no demur when I told 
him how anxious I was to be set ashore at Nome 
as soon as possible. I cannot express too strongly 
my warm appreciation of the kindness of the cap¬ 
tain and his crew, for it meant a considerable de¬ 
lay in his trading voyage and consequent loss to 
the men who, according to the established custom, 
were working entirely on shares. He told me that 
ever since he had been on this coast the weather 
had been bad. He had got the natives aboard again 
and again, to trade with them, only to have the 
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