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Dear V. S.

I have just come up from
Adas cabin where I have been
sitting and talking to her for an
hour or more. She is still
feeling ill - she was on deck an
hour or two - but went down again
and stayed in bed. As she seems to
feel better there - She spoke a
little of Wrangel. - Maurer she
said, "was a good rustler" - "the
best shot all the boys said" -
Galle - and Crawford too got
each a polar bear
Knight and Galle
were talking about

coming back next year as [pardners]
and trapping".

When she shot seal She said
each of the three seals she shot
had their heads shot away -
"you must shoot shoot their heads"
she told me or they'll fall into the
water.

Noice had not written her. She
seemed a little put out about it.
She talks quite a lot - about Nome
and living in Nome - Sometimes
about Wrangel I don't press her
much about that - thinking
there is time to get the story
gradually and as I do not know
what is in the paper she dictated
I feel that it is best to let her come
to it naturally. I tell her about
you from time to time. She seems to

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