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father, has consoled herself by becoming Kyo's wife, and she is 

 among those who are to come. This morning both Eskimos 

 started off to bring their friends, together with their sledges 

 and dogs, over to Redcliffe. As Mr. Peary is anxious to get 

 some dog!5, he sent Gibson and Astrup to follow them and see 

 that they brought all the animals with them. 



Monday, April 4. About two o'clock this morning our 

 expected visitors arrived, and reported that they had seen 

 nothing of Gibson and Astrup, nor of Kyo and Keshu. The 

 arrivals are Klayuh and her two children — the elder, Tooky, 

 apparently a young lady (as she has her beau in tow), although 

 they give her age as only twelve suns ; and the younger, a 

 girl of five or six suns — Tooky's admirer, Kookoo, Klayuh's 

 stepmother, a widow of three months, with her small child on 

 her back, and her beau Ahko. Not knowing that her hus- 

 band was dead, and in order to say something to her when 

 she came in my room, I asked her if the man accompanying 

 her was her husband, when, to my surprise, she burst into 

 tears and sobbed out that her husband was dead. I began to 

 talk in a sympathetic manner, when she suddenly dried her 

 eyes and interrupted me with, " Utchow, utchow, mikky 

 sungwa Ahko wenia awanga " (wait, wait a little while, and 

 Ahko will be my husband). This forenoon another couple 

 arrived, both rather youthful in appearance, and the woman 

 quite small ; they too had seen nothing of the boys. Just as 

 we were through with dinner Astrup came in and said Gibson 

 was coming with Kyo and Keshu and eight dogs ; in about 



