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17 ists c-n be held except by ignoring this and sever 1 other en- tries of the Brae sort, Jtasfc$n the basis of thorn the reader can form his own conclusions without editorial help. But in that cheerful entry the first sentence is ominous to us, though the context shows it did not have that moaning to Knight s he wrote it. For the next several days he evidently thought of Crawford, Gallo and Maurer as traveling ste dily tow rd Sibori? ; and after that he supposed them to he passing in ease and affluence from settlement to settlement albng the Siberian co? st toward the te igr ? pbs at Home* He speculates on wh*t I will think and do when I receive Crawford’s report about Wrmgell Isl nd. So easy in their minds wore both he and the ,'sk'mo woman, Ada, that even after Knight’s tie - th she never doubted the safety of the others. When the supply ship landod six months after the party left iso find her w tohing alone hy Knight's body, her first and constantly repo; ted question was not if they we e safe but where were thq ? As I write, I h ve just been talking with her in Seattle, She is still fin in the belief that the; are alive. "Why should they die?", she asks. "They were well ^sqgtrrr, they had rifles, they had food, and the natives on the Siberian coast re kind to travelers". But she thinks badly of the Bus si* ns and insists: "How do you know they are not prisoners among the Russians? If they are dead, how do you know the Russians did not kill them?”