SMALL EXPLORERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 306, 26 December 1936, Page 10

SMALL EXPLORERS.

FIRST ESKIMO FRIENDS.

CHESTERFIELD INLET, i HUDSON BAY. Canada's youngest Arctic explorer, Ruth Herbert, aged fifteen months, has just resumed lier journey into the far north. Born at Tort Harrison on the, eastside of Hudson Bay, little Ruth made a brief visit into civilisation, and is now again northward bound, but this time nearer to the North Pole. Her destination is Pangnirtung, Baffin Land, where her parents, the Rev. A. C. and Mrs. Herbert, are going to take over the Anglican mission. Pangnirtung will have two other small discoverers of the Arctic sailing there with Ruth 011 R.M.s. Nascopie. Priscilla Orford, aged eight, and Rosslyn, aged five, are going to Pangnirtung with their parents, Dr. and Mrs. Orford, of Markham, Ontario. Dr. Orford will take over the Government hospital at Pangnirtung. The nurse in charge at Pangnirtung will be Miss Florence Giles, of Toronto, a voting graduate of St. Joseph's Hospital, taking her first important appointment. Missionary, doctor and nurse are making their first visit to Pangnirtung. Mr. Herbert knows the north and some of the Eskimo tongue. Dr. Orford and Miss Giles have never been in the Arctic before. The Orford children are romping all over Chesterfield Inlet, and have made their first Eskimo acquaintances. See-too-wak, the elderly little Eskimo woman at Dr. Livingstone's residence here, smiled at them until her face disappeared in a map of wrinkles and her blue tattoo marks disappeared entirely. Shee-i-yuk, another Eskimo of great age, also sat and smiled at the children.