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heir babes, and one afternoon when thesun was clouded Innokenti saw such a pair and shouted to the attendant Aleuts: 'Overhere!' with glee: 'Trofim! This is an antiscorbutic! It can save all ourmen who are ill!' And off he went, enlisting th They remained motionless, well tothe east, and even when Varnak and five other Chukchis ran out to watch, the animalsmerely stood and stared, then turned back to their grazing. ing two hundred miles, and in the morning, after paying tearful farewellto the grave of Ivan Poznikov, merchant-

” “You know, it doesn’t always have to be about him. ism and rebuke ringing in his ears because of his failureto sail either west to join the Kolyma River or e ON THE AFTERNOON OF THAT THIRD DAY THE EASTERNlands became visible, and this inspired the men to paddle more stro h the strange acrostic, “Poliam Frater Franciscus Columna Peramavit,” sometimes citing it as evidence of the author’s mysterious intent.