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kept screaming "Chinio koonali!" (Welcome woman!) until I 

 said " Chimo ! Chimo ! " and then she laughed and laughed. 

 The other woman was more quiet. These Eskimos are 

 much cleaner and more presentable people than Ikwa and 

 his family. Later in the evening I gave each woman two 

 needles, a cake of soap, and a box of matches. Arrotoch- 

 suah's koonah presented me with a spoon made by herself 

 from a piece of walrus tusk, and used by her piccaninny, 

 Magda, a boy about twelve years old, ever since he could 

 feed himself In return I gave the boy a looking-glass, and I 

 made a similar present to Kayunah's smallest. Mr. Peary 

 allowed all hands to sleep on the floor in the boys' room. It 

 is amusing to listen to the conversation between our men and 

 the huskies. In one instance the bo}'s could not quite make 

 out whether a man had died from eating walrus or the walrus 

 had eaten him, etc. 



Monday, October 26. To-day is the last day the sun will 

 be above the horizon until February 13th. 



