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Updated: May 28, 2025
Here a brown seal bobbed his head out of the water; here a spectacled eiderduck rode up and down on the tiny waves, and here a great mass of tubular seaweed drifted by to remind them that they were really on the bosom of the briny ocean. Only one incident of the voyage caused them a feeling of vague unrest. A fog had settled down over the sea.
He wore a single garment, cleverly pieced together till it seemed one skin, but made of many bird skins, eiderduck, perhaps. This garment left his arms and legs free for swimming. He said nothing, simply stared at them as if in bewilderment. "We must get him ashore at once," said Lucile. "He must have swum a long way."
Phi realized that he was not on the mainland of America. This man's costume was quite unlike that of the Diomeders. He wore a shirt of eiderduck skins such as was never seen on the Little Diomede, and his outer garments of short-haired deerskin, instead of being composed of parka and trousers were all of one piece. "Wherever we are," he said to the dog, "we'll know what's what in an hour or two."
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