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KODIAK. ALASKA 8KPT. A OCT. 1916. Vol. XVII. No. 5 & <i
A Little Girl With No Nai-’e
When the SU'mimt Admiral l'v-uis
arrived in Sept, we were informed
that there was a child on hoard for
the Orphanage. It proved to he a
little girl ah.mfc four years old. She
was in the rare of the stewardess.
•\lid »he f. Mowing is all that could be
learned about the child.
Just as the boat was leaving the
dock at Seldovia a man rushed up
with the child in hisiirinaand hand
ed her over the rail to one of the pas
sengers sa} ing “She is »iti « rphan for
the Mission at Wood Islond '* with the
child he handed $10 00 to pay her
passage. The man who received her
happened to he IT. S. deputy Marshal
Hrenioonan. He turned the little
one over to the stewardess, who, with
the assistance of one of the lady pas*
si ngers, cared for her till the steamer
arrived at Kodiak when she was
handed over to 8npt. Learn.
It was expected of course that there
won Id he a letter concerning hi?r, hut
in this we were disappointed. Al
though the child can talk, no ques
tioning, no matter how skillful, has
been successful in getting her to tell
h t name.
For six weeks or more we called her
“baby”, but. as she is older Hi d larg
er than Katherine, whom she calls
44 That one*’ it seemed so inappropriate
to call her baby that we named her
Seldovia Nameoff, which sounds anf
ficientlv native to go with her little
round brown face.
When told her new name she was
very proud and harpy. She would
go to the other girls and in her sweet
little voice gay “Seldovia Naineoff
me'', pointing proudly to heraelf.
She is a plump little lags with black
hair, dark skin and dark brown and
rather small eyes.
Sinoe her first day at the Orphan
age when she asked a few times
“where mama?" there has been no
question or any reference in her
chatter toher past life It seems as
much of a blank to her as it is to ns.
She is very happy and contented in
her new home. And is daily adding
weight to her already heavy little
body.
Pei haps some day we will learn
something of her history before she
Came to the Orphanage.
DISTINGUISHED VISITORS.
Amongst the passengers on the
Admiral Evans were Rev. James II.
L’ondit O. D. of Juneau, General
Missionary for Alaska of the Pres
byterian Board of Home Missious,
and Rev. Mr. Shriver pastor of the
Presbyterian Church at Cordova.
As the steamer was in port ‘24 hrs
we had the pleasure of taking these