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not speak English.

Today as we passed the coast near below Santa Barbara
she said the hills looked like Wrangel. Only some
hills were higher on Wrangel. - all covered with snow in winter
and brown and black in summer.

Bennett talks a lot and asks questions about
everything - "not like me, Ada says, 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 tell you. Galle like it very
much." - Then when I am alone with Knight
we do not talk much, but he tell me stories.
"Jack in the bean stalk" =

Maurer talks Eskimo - not quite the same as her
dialect but she can understand.

"Homesick for Nome - and some ice and snow -
she would like some seal oil and sour leaves,
and salmon berries . On Wrangel she had had seal oil
but no sour leaves." I've wired

People on the boat have been kind - but she only talk to only a few - then
not very much, sometimes I can get her to talk a little to
someone else.

Yesterday she told me she had read your "Life with [...]
Eskimo" - every word of it - and "I think it is Every
Word True " So so she pays you the what he says about North Country" - So she

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