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The Eskimo Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins
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wind blew on these wings and made the boat go!

Kesshoo had been out in a kyak to see it. He had even paddled all
round it. The men on the great boat had fair hair, and one of
them, the chief man of all, had bought some of Kesshoo's skins
and one of his dogs. The man was a great chief. His name was
Nansen.

This great chief had told Kesshoo that he was going to take a
sledge and go straight into the inland country where the Giants
live! He said he was going to cross the great ice! No man had
ever done that since the world began.

Kesshoo thought probably the great chief had been eaten by the
Giants, but he did not know surely, because he had never been
back there since to find out. And to be sure, if he had been
eaten by Giants, no one ever would know about it anyway.

Then Kesshoo showed them all a great knife that the white chief
had given him, in exchange for a sealskin, and two steel needles
that he had sent to Koolee. Koolee kept the needles in a little
ivory case all by themselves.

She always carried the case in her kamik, so it would not be
lost. She could do wonderful sewing with the needles. Koolee was
very proud of her sewing. No one else in the whole village could
sew so well, because they had not such good needles to do it
with. Koolee used them only for her very finest work.

At last the Angakok said, "It is time to go home." He called to
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