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out, so I don't blame her for
wanting to go by train. She expects
to go north in June. She says she
wishes she was in Nome - "it is
cold in Seattle" -She has many
colds - she never had a cold
on Wrangell."

Bennett is trying to teach
me Eskimo - he says horse -
then gives me the Eskimo word
which I promptly forget and
which he patiently repeats for
me. Ada smiling with
pride. He is
a cunning youngster
and I take him upstairs with me

and he amuse himself seeing and
not watching the gulls. Calling
them eider duck and imitating their
cry. he tells me he can ride on
his reindeer, "holding on to their horns
and spanking them with his hands
make them go fast".

The slevea I can't imagine why
I am making so many false starts
in this letter - the ship rolls a little
and many people are about -
It is a good trip beautifully sunny
and bracing I'm sorry Ada is laid
up.

She told me today that she had
a friend, his name is Harvey
and he is on the Alameda running to
south east Alaska - I think
it is not too good a thing, for her
to have a "friend" -