Jacob Welse he had met at St.
Michael's in the fall of '88, just prior to his crossing Bering Straits on the ice.

A month or so later, Father Barnum (who had come up from the Lower River to take charge of the hospital) had met him a couple of hundred miles on his way north of St.Michael's.

Captain Alexander, of the Police, had rubbed shoulders with him in the British Legation at Peking.

And Bettles, another old-timer of standing, had met him at Fort o' Yukon nine years before.
So Dawson, ever prone to look askance at the casual comer, received him with open arms.

Especially was he a favorite with the women.