. Children of the Arctic. V A few days later Etah,the place where her fatherhad built his winter house,was sighted, and AH-NI-GHI-TO thought that ina few hours she would bein his arms; but she wasto be disappointed, for be-fore the ship reached theinlet AH-NI-GHI-TOSmother saw that the dear old stars and stripeswere not flying from the little red house, andtold her this was a sure sign that father was notthere. As soon as the ships anchor was down a boatfull of Eskimos came off from the shore and theysaid that Peary had not yet returned, but he hadsent letters which were in his house on shore.
. Children of the Arctic. V A few days later Etah,the place where her fatherhad built his winter house,was sighted, and AH-NI-GHI-TO thought that ina few hours she would bein his arms; but she wasto be disappointed, for be-fore the ship reached theinlet AH-NI-GHI-TOSmother saw that the dear old stars and stripeswere not flying from the little red house, andtold her this was a sure sign that father was notthere. As soon as the ships anchor was down a boatfull of Eskimos came off from the shore and theysaid that Peary had not yet returned, but he hadsent letters which were in his house on Sam jumped into the boat and in a shorttime brought letters from AH-NI-GHI-TOSfather, in which he told the Captain what he 40 CHILDREN OF THE ARCTIC wanted done at Etah and that he wished the shipto come on to Fort Conger where he wouldmeet it. Now Etah is on the east shore of Smith Soundand Fort Conger, the place where AH-NI-GHI-TOS father hoped to meet his vessel, is on the. A Boat full of Eskimos west side and nearly three hundred miles farthernorth. The ice here was very thick and onlysmall lakes of water were to be seen through it,in the direction in which the ship must go. 41 CHILDREN OF THE ARCTIC Both Captain Sam and AH-NI-GHI-TOSmother felt that there was Httle chance of CTettinato Fort Conger in their small ship. Before leav-ing Etah the Captain must get hundreds of tinsof canned goods, barrels of flour, cases of sugar,rice, biscuit, oatmeal, etc., etc., on board to takewith them. These had all been piled near thebeach bv AH-NI-GHI-TOS father, ready to beput on the ship as soon as she came. This took more than twentv-four hours anddurincr this time AH-NI-GHI-TO was ashore asmuch as possible meetmo- some of her old Eskimofriends and getting acquainted with others. That fc» -q nio-ht she wrote in her diarv: -■ Aicgust 20, 1900. — Ashore all dav. Took a look atfathers house. It is verv empty and \erv small. I alsolooked into the tents of the Esk
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