revealed one fawn skin parka, one under suit of eider duck skin, one
pair of seal skin trousers, two pairs of seal skin boots, with deer skin
socks to match, and one pair of deer skin mittens. Besides these there
was an undressed deer skin, a harpoon and a seal lance.

Not such a bad selection, this, for a moment's choosing. The principal
difficulty was that the whole outfit had formerly belonged to a boy of
fourteen. The Jap girl shrugged her shoulders at this and donned the
clothing without compunctions.

When that task was complete she surveyed herself in an up-ended cake of
blue ice and laughed. In this rig, with her hair closely plaited to her
head, her own mother would have taken her for a young Chukche boy out
for a hunt.

Other problems now claimed her attention. She was alone in the world
without food or shelter. She dared not return to the village. Where
should she go?

Again she shrugged her shoulders. She was warmly clad, but she was tired
and sleepy. Seeking out a cubby hole made by tumbled cakes of ice, she
plastered up the cracks between the cakes with snow until only one
opening remained. Then, dragging her deer skin after her, she crept
inside. She half closed the opening with a cake of snow, spread the deer
skin on the ice and curled up to sleep as peacefully as if she were in
her own home.

One little thing she had not reckoned with; she was now on the drifting
ice of the ocean, and was moving steadily northward at the rate of one
mile an hour.