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[...][s]ays she was using a stove made of oil cans in
Summer to save the iron stove for winter.

V.S. III

comfortable in it and his story of the filthy condition of the
camp is a lie for, she kept it clean herself.

When you come to Seattle you had better make it a point to have a
day, if possible and see her and have a good long talk with her and you
may be able to get her odr order on Noice for her diary or, she may be
willing to write a story for you and give it to you to frame up as seems
fit.

The boys found a great many walrus tusks on the beach and they also
found o four or five immense mastadon tusks and they had a big box full
of Ivory of this sort and Noice took it all along and seems, as far as I
know, never to have accounted for it.

They had four sacks full of fox skins and she herself had 16 in one
sack which Noice brought out and sold 15 of them for her for $28.00 each.
She thinks the boys must have had 60 or 80 skins and Noice told me that
there were only 32.

Ada sneaked Lorne's Kodak, ( it seems that each of them had one of
the post card size)and his binoculars and she brought them out . She brought
us the kodak and it has his marks and his name on it and we prize it
more than we can tell you. In order to reward her, Joseph gave her his
Kodak which is a size smaller and she was duly pleased. She says she will
send us the binoculars which she forgot to bring.

Lorne gave her a Bible which he had with him and she also brought
this out and, I think she expected us to keep this also but, when I told
her I wanted her to keep it always ,and inscribed it for her, she was a
greatly pleased girl. Then, Mrs.Knight got Lorne's Elk flag,a small silk
American Flag which is given to each candidate when initiated ,and gave it
to her and she w as very proud of it.

Ada says that Noice has brought Galle's Corona typewriter out with
him, and I am sure that he has never sent it to the people for they have
told us that all they received was an empty suit case. This typewriter,
Galle had at our home and he ha dbrought it with him, I guess, from
Texas. His folks would prize it very highly and I hope you can aid in
having it restored to them.

Of course, you know the Eskimos better than I but, I believe that I
have learned that,they are not to be urged and, if they want to do a
thing, they will do it better if left alone but, if urged, they will be
suspicious. The best way to get along with Ada is to leave her alone.
However, she will be glad to see you, I am sure and she will perhaps
listen to you with more confidence than she would to me. I am not sure
as to whether or not she liked me but, I feel pretty sure that she liked
Mrs .Knight and would confide to her in her.

The last night she w as here, she and Mrs.Knight were going up town to
look at the sights and buy some things and she said she would not wear
a hat but would let them see that she was a really little Eskimo girl.

What a lot of rubber there is are in the McMinnvillenecks.