Excerpt from a woman who went to alaska
may kellogg sullivan

5naturally, my traveling companions interested me exceedingly. there were few women. two ladies with their husbands were going to dawson on business. about eight or ten other women belonging to the rapid class of individuals journeyed at the same time. we had all nationalities and classes. there were two women from europe with luggage covered with foreign stickers, and a spoken jargon which was neither german nor french, but sounded like a clever admixture of both.

6then there was the woman who went by the name of mrs. somebody or other who wore a seal-skin coat, diamond earrings and silver-mounted umbrella. she had been placed in the same stateroom with me on the steamer at seattle, and upon making her preparations to retire for the night had offered me a glass of brandy, while imbibing one herself, which i energetically, though politely, refused. at midnight a second woman of the same caste had been ushered into my room to occupy the third and last berth, whereupon next morning i had waited upon the purser of the ship, and modestly but firmly requested a change of locationbased on the passage, which most likely explains why the narrator requested a change of rooms?