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articles distributed among" them. I know if tiie good Penn- 

 sylvanians who sent these gifts could have seen the pleasure 

 these poor natives derived from them they would have felt 

 amply repaid. 



We spent a couple of hours in taking photographs of the 

 natives, their tuples, our poor little abandoned house and its 

 surroundings, and then bade farewell to RedclifTe. It had 

 been my home for thirteen months — some of them had 

 seemed more than twice as long as any ordinary month — 

 and I felt sorry to leave it to the mercy of wind and weather 

 and Eskimo. Mane asked me if she might pitch her tupic in 

 my room, saying it would be so nice and dry, and the wind 

 could not strike it and blow it over ; then, too, no matter how 

 cold it might be, her ikkimer would be sufficient to heat it 

 comfortably. I told her she might do so, but she must take 

 good care of the house and not allow others to destroy any- 

 thing about it, until the return of the next sun, when, if we 

 did not come back, it should belong to Ikwa and herself to 

 do with as they wished. 



It was about noon when I left the settlement with the last 

 boat-load, and as soon as we were safely on board the " Kite " 

 the work of raising the anchor was begun. In the meantime 

 Ikwa and Kyo in their kayaks were paddling round and round 

 the "Kite," calling to us their last good-byes. Ikwa asked 

 if he might come aboard just once more, and on permission 

 being granted, he immediately climbed over the side and 

 jumped on deck. Some one took a fancy to his ka}-ak pad- 



