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Updated: May 25, 2025
Here they found an old man busily engaged in carving a walrus tooth, another sewing mukluks, while a girl was singing a quaint lullaby to a child of two in the corner. The young girl rose, and, putting the baby down on a pile of skins, spoke to them in good English, saying quietly: "You are welcome. I am Alalik." "May we see your wares? We wish to buy," said Mr. Strong, courteously.
"We scrape it a very long time and pull and rub," she said. "Plenty of time for patience in winter." "Your hands are too small and slim. I shouldn't think you could do much with those stiff skins," said Teddy. Alalik smiled at the compliment, and a little flush crept into the clear olive of her skin.
This he bought for his mother, and a carving of a baby for Judith; while his father made him and Kalitan happy with presents. "Where did you learn such English?" asked Mr. Strong of Alalik, wondering, too, where she learned her pretty, modest ways, for Esquimo women are commonly free and easy. "I was for two years at the Mission at Holy Cross," she said. "There I learned much that was good.
She served it in cups of grass, and Ted thought he had never tasted anything nicer than the cup of afternoon tea served in an eglu. "Alalik, what were you singing as we came in?" asked Ted. "A song my mother always sang to us," she replied. "It is called 'Ahmi, and is an Esquimo slumber song." "Will you sing it now?" asked Mr.
Wake, and see the crow hiding himself from the arrow, Wake, little one, wake, for here is your father." Thanking Alalik for the quaint song, sung in a sweet, touching voice, they all took their departure, laden with purchases and delighted with their visit. "But you must not think this is a fair sample of Esquimo hut or Esquimo life," said Mr. Strong to the boys.
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