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English: Original text: Nancy Columbia and Her Subjects - Very popular with World’s Fair visitors are the Esquimaux. Their wide smiles are infectious. The queen of the colony, by unanimous consent, is Nancy Columbia, aged eleven. Those who did the World's Columbian Exposition will readily recall the Esquimaux Village in the corner of the grounds near the collection of State Buildings. While the Esquimaux men cracked their long whips to snap nickels from the center of a big ring scratched on the ground and while the dogs snarled and panted in the unusual climate, Columbia came into the world at a World’s Fair. She was christened Columbia by Mrs. Potter Palmer, the President of the Woman’s Commission, and became a star attraction with the public. She was commonly called “Little Columbia.” After she was taken back to the Northern home of her people she was given the additional name, so that she is now known as Nancy Columbia. The little girl has grown to her present short stature in the atmosphere of professional amusement life. This is her fourth Exposition. Nancy Columbia is quite accomplished for an Esquimaux maiden. She learned to read and write English in a school at Coney Island. Her mother, who had been interpreter for Lieutenant Peary on his Polar expeditions, had taught her to speak English. The Queen of the Esquimaux has not only traveled but is educated.