The Nome nugget., 1925-10-03
TWO SIBERIAN CHILDREN ENROUTE HOME AFTER LONG
 TRIP FROM NORWAY

Camilla Carpendale, age 16, and kakonita ekakotD Amundsen. age S, Of East Cape, Siberia, are now in Nome and are stopping at the Mission while waiting for a boat to take them to their home in Siberia.
 It will he recalled by readers of the Nugget that Captain Roald Am undsen, the explorer, took the two young girls to the States some two or three years ago to give them an education in Norway. Capt. Am undsen wintered with Charley Car pendale the winter that the eX- ploring ship Maude was forced to winter near Cape Serge, and it was during his stay here that he be- came attached to the two little girls ending in him adopting the Kakot child and taking them our side as above stated.
 Last Spring the two girls return ed from Norway arriving on the Pacific Coast in time to take pas sage on the schooner Holmes, Capt. Eacklund in command. bound for Arctic Ocean Points. The Holmes conveyed the children to Cape Prince of Wales. which is just op- posite their home from the other side oi Bering Straits, some thirty FnSs,ies across, after going ashore they walk to Tin City, a short dis tance away. where they stayed as guests of Mir. and Mrs. H. J. Chris tiansen, who operate tin mine there. Here the two girls waited patiently all summer for boat
 which might accidentally happ3n along that would through kindness and sympathy. convey them across the 30 miles of water known as Bering Straits, to their home and loved ones, anxiously they walked the beach every day scanning the water for sight of boat, occas- ionally the weather was so clear that they could almost see their homes on the opposite shore 'Si- beria), day in and day out they kept up this vigil but no vessel bound for Siberia made it's appear ance.
 Finally the U. s. motorship Box CT of the Bureau of Education, was sighted and later dropped anchor all was excitement, the girls be- Eeved they were surely going to be taken home at last, but as no American vessels are allowed to carry on trading operations or touch at Siberian points. unless authorized by agreement with the Soviet government, it was explain. ed to them that it was impossible to take them to Siberia. However, Captain Frank Whitlam of the Box CT agreed to take them to Nome where it would be more than likely they would be able to catch one of the Swenson Company vessels sailing out of Nome for Siberia with trading supplies for the Sow jet government under agreement So this is how the girls happen to be here in Nome where they are still anxiously waiting transporta- ton.
 As the season for trading op- erations is about over between Nome and Siberia points, it is very doubtful whether they will be able to reach their home before June' 1928. It is reported that Mir R. S. Pollister, agent for the Swenson Company, who recently returned from Siberia to Nome on the motor ship Blue Sea belonging to his com pany, stated that in case the Blue Sea makes another trip they could make the journey on his boat. This vessel had considerable engine
 rouble on her last voyage and it is not known whether or nor the trouble has been entirely illiminat- ed.
 However, the girls stated to the publisher of the Nugget that if they were unable to be taken across