. Children of the Arctic. en and shut its eyes. 57 CHILDREN OF THE ARCTIC Achatingwah was AH-NI-GHI-TOS dailycompanion, and the two little girls had a merrytime together. This little Eskimo girls fatherwas dead. A walrus had pulled him into thewater and drowned him. But her mother, Aweah,had another husband, who took care of Achating-wah. She had two real brothers and a step-brother. One of her own brothers was Ahng-ood-loo,who, besides being the Captain of all the Es-kimos who worked for AH-NI-GHI-TOS father,was the husband of Billy Bah, the Eskimogirl who was AH-NI-GHI-TOS first ca
. Children of the Arctic. en and shut its eyes. 57 CHILDREN OF THE ARCTIC Achatingwah was AH-NI-GHI-TOS dailycompanion, and the two little girls had a merrytime together. This little Eskimo girls fatherwas dead. A walrus had pulled him into thewater and drowned him. But her mother, Aweah,had another husband, who took care of Achating-wah. She had two real brothers and a step-brother. One of her own brothers was Ahng-ood-loo,who, besides being the Captain of all the Es-kimos who worked for AH-NI-GHI-TOS father,was the husband of Billy Bah, the Eskimogirl who was AH-NI-GHI-TOS first came to AH-NI-GHI-TOS home in Wash-ington and spent a year with her and then returnedto the Snowland. Ahngoodloo was one of the only two left-handed men in the tribe, and he was the besthunter of all. He was very fond of AH-NI-GHI-TOS father and always stayed with him. Achatingwah also had another brother, Wee-sha-kup-sie, who spent a year in New York Cityand returned to his country when AH-NI-GHI- 58 CHILDREN OF THE ARCTIC. ^BILLT BAH Mrs. Ahngoodloo TOS father went there the last time. So Acha-tingwah knew more about the ways of theKabloonahs (white people) than most of hertribe. Her hair was always smooth and her faceand hands clean when she came to play withAH-NI-GHI-TO. 59 CHILDREN OF THE ARCTIC She wore yellow kamiks (boots) made of thetanned seal-skin, and these she rubbed with snowto clean them before coming on the ship. Hertrousers, made of the skms of the blue fox andthe white fox, she also rubbed with snow andbeat with an norv knife made tor this purposeout of a walrus tusk, until thev looked like kapetah (coat with hood), made of the fox-skins, too, she took off in the cabin, and herbird-skm shirt looked white and clean. The days g-rew shorter and shorter, and soonthe day came when the sun did not shine in thelittle harbour at all, and, looking to the south,the blQr, round, vellou ball could not be seen onthe horizon. This meant that he was on hisway south and
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