. Children of the Arctic. Fathet-s House is very s/na, iir hope to get away from here and take with us five grownEskimos and two children. I wonder will we meetfather soon. Poor little AH-NI-GHI-TO thought that ina few hours at most the ship would cross SmithSound and reach her first landing-place on the 43 CHILDREN OF THE ARCTIC opposite shore, Cape Sabine, only thirty milesaway, where a depot of supplies and coal wouldbe landed for the use of those on board the. Coasted doivfi the Slopes of the Ice Hummocks Windward in case she should be crushed inthe ice, while trying to get north, and her
. Children of the Arctic. Fathet-s House is very s/na, iir hope to get away from here and take with us five grownEskimos and two children. I wonder will we meetfather soon. Poor little AH-NI-GHI-TO thought that ina few hours at most the ship would cross SmithSound and reach her first landing-place on the 43 CHILDREN OF THE ARCTIC opposite shore, Cape Sabine, only thirty milesaway, where a depot of supplies and coal wouldbe landed for the use of those on board the. Coasted doivfi the Slopes of the Ice Hummocks Windward in case she should be crushed inthe ice, while trying to get north, and her people 44 CHILDREN OF THE ARCTIC forced to return to the shore in boats. But ittook eight long days to reach this place, and dur-ing all of this time there was hardly a momentwhen the ship was not in danger. Sometimes the great sheets of ice would holdthe Windward in their grasp and not allowher to move an inch. Then the current wouldtake her, together with the ice, and drift the wholesouthward. In this way the ship was often farthersouth at the end of the day than she was whenshe started to steam north a few hours these times when the Windward was drift-ing she was perfectly motionless and AH-NI-GHI-TO, together with Percy and some of theEskimos, would climb over the side of the shiponto the floes and there they would play and slideon the smooth ice; and once Captain Sam lashedtwo Norwegian skates called Ski together,and she coasted down the slo
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