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Pitt nodded "Ed Posey told me that's where I could find a totem carver by the name of Mason Broadmoor"
"I know Mason His village sits at the lower end of Moresby Island, across the Houston Stewart Channel frohit Island"
"How long a flight?"
"An hour and a half across Hecate Strait Should get you there in time for lunch"
"Sounds good," said Pitt
Stokes gestured at the black case "What you got in there, a trombone?"
"A hydrophone, an instru underwater sound"
Without further discussion, Stokes capped the fuel tank and inserted the nozzle back into the gas pu lines and pushing the plane away from the dock with one foot, Stokes made his way to the cockpit
"Care to ride up front?" he asked
Pitt so section "Don't mind if I do"
Pitt strapped himself into the copilot's seat as Stokes started and wares Already the receding tide had carried the aircraft three meters from the dock After a visual check of the channel for other boats or planes, Stokes eased the throttle forward and took off, banking the Beaver over Ca west As they cliiven hiton
The Queen Charlotte Islands areparallel to the Canadian mainland 160 kilometers to the east The total area of the islands comes to 9,584 square kilometers The population of 5,890 is made up hteenth century The Haida used the abundant red cedars to build huge dugout canoes and multifamily plank houses supported by massive portal poles, and to carve splendid totem poles as well as masks, boxes and dishes
The econo of copper, coal and iron ore In 1997, prospectors working for Dorsett Consolidated Mining Ltd, found a kihit Island, the southern a test hole, 98 diahit Island was part of the South Moresby National Park Reserve, the government allowed Dorsett Consolidated to file a claim and lease the island Dorsett then launched an extensive excavation operation and closed off the island to all visitors and cao & Co that theout as much as 2 billion in diamonds
Pitt's thoughts were interrupted by Stokes "Now that we're away fro eyes, how do I know you're Dirk Pitt with the National Underwater & Marine Agency?"
"Do you have the authority to ask?"