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not let the chance go by, even at the expense of their little 

 strength. Not being able to carry everything in one trip, I 

 went back for the rest, preferring this to staying with the 

 sledge, where the natives were now swarming, and wanting 

 to handle everything they saw. When I came to the igloos 

 again, Annowee, a Cape York woman, who had lately been to 

 RedclifTe, began to beg me not to go down, but to have 

 ]\Ir. Peary come up to her; she had " ah-ah " (pain) in her 

 knees and could not possibly make the descent. She wanted 

 to see us as long as she could, as she would never see our 

 like again. All this time she was not only talking loudly, 

 but clutching at my arm whenever I turned to go, and when 

 I said, " Utchow, utchow, wanga tigala}- " (just wait, I am 

 coming back), she said, " Peeuk," but did not want me to 

 take the things down for fear I should not come back. The 

 other women now closed about me, and all begged me to stay. 

 Mr. Peary, who remained wath the sledge, was somewhat dis- 

 turbed by my position, but it was all done in kindly feeling. 

 In spite of the fact that Annowee "could not come down," 

 she was at the sledge almost as soon as I was. 



We took our supper, after which we bartered for tanned 

 oogzook-sinishaw (seal-thong), sealskins, bearskin trousers, 

 and two dogs. Old Ahnahna gave me a scolding for the bene- 

 fit of her companions because I would not give her a needle ; 

 she said Mr. Peary was " peudiochsoa " (very good) but " Mit- 

 tie " Peary was " peeuk nahme " — that I used to give her nee- 

 dles, but now I would not do it, etc. While .saying this she 



