AH-NI-GHI´-TO was much excited because she thought she saw her uncle on board, but as the new ship drew nearer she found it was a stranger.
The name of the ship was the “Erik” and she brought many letters from home to AH-NI-GHI´-TO and her father and mother.
In one letter was the sad tidings that AH-NI-GHI´-TO would never see one of her grandmothers again. This grieved her very much, and she wanted to go home at once for fear others would be gone before she could get there.
The “Erik” was a much larger and stronger ship than the “Windward,” and AH-NI-GHI´-TO’S father said that the “Windward” should wait here while the “Erik” took him with his party across the now ice-filled Smith Sound and landed him at his winter house.
“To paddle about in an Eskimo Kayak”
AH-NI-GHI´-TO, her mother, and Percy went on board the “Erik” together with her father and his party, that they might be with him as long as possible.
Charley, the steward, was going to stay and cook, and AH-NI-GHI´-TO told him to be sure and take care of her father.
After fighting with the ice for four days the “Erik” was still twenty miles south of Cape Sabine, and there seemed little chance of getting any nearer.
AH-NI-GHI´-TO’S father then said all his party and dogs and meat, with some provisions, should be landed here, and he would work his way to his house later in the season.