Bordering the southwest perimeter of the cemetery and demarcated by two large white crosses is a patch of land about thirty feet long. Buried under here are the seventy-two Brevig Mission residents killed in late November 1918 by Spanish influenza. Despite quarantines and travel restrictions into Alaska, somehow the virus reached this secluded outpost and wiped out 90 percent of the local population within five days, leaving alive only eight children and teenagers. In the summer of 1951, Johan Hultin traveled to this exact spot next
