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to the St. Francis to meet some friends. I really didn't know whether I'd
find her on the boat when I got back or not, and I flew down below the minute
I came aboard to see whether she was still on the ship. But by this time she had
forgotten her impatience and was just getting back to normal when more reporters
with cameras came on when the boat was about to sail. She again fled to her
room and I couldn't get her up again until we were past Alcatraz.

Then she told me that people got paid for talking to
papers and giving pictures, sometimes $20. I told her I hadn't heard of such
a thing, unless they had written a story to sell, and her story had already
been printed. But she was sure Eskimos at Nome had been paid for pictures.

Later she told me she bought 3 papers with Bennett's
pictures in it, one to send to her "friend".

In the afternoon she went back to her usual happy frame
of mind and told me some Eskimo legends, one long one about an Eskimo man who
married Polar Bear and thought it was a human - and one about the Lady in the
Moon. I like that one so well that I wrote it down last night. I tried to
write it as nearly in her manner of telling it as I could - of course, I could
not take notes. So I am afraid I didn't get quite the whole thing. It is a
story of her mother's telling - her mother was from Council - and does not
speak English.

To-day as we passed the coast below Santa Barbara she said
the hills looked like Wrangell, only some hills were higher on Wrangell - all
covered with snow in winter and brown and black in summer.

Bennett talks a lot and asks questions about everything.
"not like me," Adasays, "always my people say I never ask questions about
anything. On Wrangell the first year I do not talk much, but when Knight and
Crawford go on ice trip and I am left alone with Maurer and Galle for week, I
tell them stories - story of Lady in the Moon I told you. Galle like it very
much. Then when I am alone with Knight we do not talk much, but he tells me