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The girls were most anxious to get on and pitch the 
tents. ‘It is no good,’ said Uano, ‘Pesanka deep. 
High tide.’ 
‘It isn’t,’ says Us- 
tynia. ‘Is it, Yeli- 
sei?’ 
‘No good; very 
deep ; yes, yes,’ says 
“Yelisei. 
Old Yelisei was 
so very old that in 
an ordinary way he 
was an _ ultimate 
appeal. But the 
girls were not to be 
done, for they had 
ARCTIC RASPBERRY (Rudus arcticus) 
made up their minds, though all the men were against 
them with one voice. 
‘You men are cowards. We will go anyhow, and 
you will come, mother, won’t you?’ 
‘Yes, yes,’ said Mrs. Uano, she would go. 
‘And you, Tinyah, you will come?’ 
The duchess didn’t seem as if she much took to ,the 
idea of this deep water, but she couldn’t stand out when 
all the women were going, so she said rather glumly, 
‘Yes, yes,’ too. 
‘That’s right,’ laughs Ustynia, the ringleader. ‘Now 
girls’; and in a second they had whipped up on to their 
