CHAPTER VH 



ESKIMO VISITORS 



Our Visitors Leave for their Homes — Departure of a Party to Build a Stone II ut 

 in Tooktoo Valley — Arrival of the Most Northerly Family in the World — The 

 Last Hunting-party of the Season Goes to Five-Glacier Valley — Still the 

 Natives Come — Mama's Birthday — Finishing Touches to our Winter Quarters 

 — Eclipse of the Moon — Beginning of the Winter Routine — Matt Installed as 

 Cook — Thanksgiving. 



Wednesday, October 28. Yesterday Nowdingyah and his 

 piccaninny, a little girl about two and a half years old, put in 

 their appearance. The child was nicely dressed in a blue-fox 

 "kapetah" (overcoat) and seal cap trimmed with fox, but she 

 was not as pretty as Kayunah's little one. I gave her a look- 

 ing-glass, too, which amused her father as much as it did the 

 child. After supper Mr. Peary brought out his reading-glass, 

 and Arrotochsuah's wife immediately said she had seen a 

 white man have one at the northern settlement of Etah, and 

 she showed us how he had used it as a burning-glass. We 

 are all curious to know what party of white men she had seen. 

 The whole evening till midnight was spent in taking flash- 

 light photographs of the Eskimos and ethnological measure- 

 ments of Kayunah. 



Our Eskimo visitors left for their honies this morning. At 

 noon the boys, with Dr. Cook in charge, started for Five- 



