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72 of 80 Villagers Dead in 5 Days. Brevig Mission, 1918.

In November of 1918, a mail boat reaches a small Inupiat village on the coast of Alaska. Five days later, seventy-two of its eighty residents are dead. The village is Brevig Mission, on the Seward Peninsula.

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