Not to be behind, Kit and I gave to _We-we_ and _Caubvick_ three yards of bright-red flannel apiece; also a red-and-black silk handkerchief each to wear over their shoulders, and two massive (pinchbeck) breast-pins.
These latter articles did make their little piercing black eyes sparkle amazingly.
How long they would have stayed on board, Heaven only knows,--all summer, perhaps,--had not the captain given orders to have the schooner brought round.

The moment the vessel began to move, they were seized with a panic, lest they should be carried off from home.

The men were over into their _kayaks_ instantly.

Having got rid of them, "The Curlew" was again hove to, while the _oomiak_ was brought under the stairs.

We bade a hasty farewell to the Husky belles, and handed them into their barge.