“Walrus Larger than Oxen”
One window of the baby’s room looked out upon a great glacier or river of ice, and the other upon high red and brown mountains surrounding a bay in which floated lots and lots of icebergs, of the strangest and most fantastic shapes, so that you might easily imagine some of them to be the palace of the Frost King, others white ships, and in still others you might see the cruel white face of the Frost King himself.
“White Ivory Horns Longer than a Man is Tall”
When the strange people of the land heard that a baby had been found in this house, and that, wonderful to relate, this baby was perfectly white, they came—men, women, and children—hundreds of miles, riding upon sledges drawn by wild shaggy dogs, which looked like wolves, to see the little stranger.
These people are brown, with black shaggy hair, and dress entirely in furs both summer and winter.
“Eskimos in their Strange Skin Boats”
They said “OW-NAY´” and “AH-NAN-NAN” to her, at which she stared with wide-open eyes; and then they wanted to touch her to see if she was warm and not made of snow, she was so white.
And if by chance she happened to smile when looking at one of them, then there was great rejoicing, for this was counted very lucky.