. Children of the Arctic. CHILDREN OF THE ARCTIC When the mothers want to feed them thev take theHttle naked things out of the hoods, without coveringthem — right out on deck in the cold, and the babiesdont seem to mind it at all. Then there are some littleboys. I shall get Billy to wash them to-morrow so I canplay with them. They all have black hair and big black eyes and whiteteeth and such little flat noses, and they wear the funniestlittle short trousers made of bear-skin, with tinv fur-linedboots and big fox-skin coats. I could laugh every time Ilook at Achatingwah told me all abou
. Children of the Arctic. CHILDREN OF THE ARCTIC When the mothers want to feed them thev take theHttle naked things out of the hoods, without coveringthem — right out on deck in the cold, and the babiesdont seem to mind it at all. Then there are some littleboys. I shall get Billy to wash them to-morrow so I canplay with them. They all have black hair and big black eyes and whiteteeth and such little flat noses, and they wear the funniestlittle short trousers made of bear-skin, with tinv fur-linedboots and big fox-skin coats. I could laugh every time Ilook at Achatingwah told me all about the sun and moon to-day. Ever so many years. ago, longer than the oldest Funny little bear-skin trousers Eskimos can remember, a girlran out of an igloo with a pieceof lighted moss in her brother ran after her witha larger piece of moss. Theyran so long they ran right upinto the sky, where the girlbecame the moon and herbrother the sun. Is nt it funny ?We say there is a man in themoon 3 the Eskimos think it isa girl. 82 CHILDREN OF THE ARCTIC XI March went and Aprilcame, with April FoolsDay and Easter, ofwhich, of course, AH-NI-GHI-TOS Eskimofriends knew nothing. During » April therewere many pleasant days,and AH-NI-GHI-TOand her mother were outmost of the Eskimos crossed Smith Sound to theopen water off the Greenland shore, where thewalrus were plentiful and where most of the tribegather every spring for the hunt. Each familybuilds a snow igloo, and there they stay andhunt and feast until the ^breaking up of tht^ice warns them that if they wish to return totheir settlement before the next autumn theymust move
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