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"They was holden me hand and telling me that I must be his mother 

 now as his own mother is dead and she was a great friend of mine although 

 we could not understand each other's language sometimes, still we could 

 make it out with sins and wonders." 



"April 7, 1894. — Since I last wrote on this book, I have been what 

 people call cruising about here. I have been visiting some of my friends, 

 though scattered far apart, with my snow-shoes and axe on my shoulders. 

 The nearest house to this place is about five miles up a beautiful river, 

 and then through woods, what the french calls a portage — it is what I 

 call pretty. Many is the time that I have been going with dogs and 

 komatick 40 or 50 years ago with my husband and family to N. W. River, 

 to the Hon. Donald A. Smith and family to keep N. Year or Easter." 



"My dear old sister Hannah Mishlin who is now going on for 80 years 

 old and she is smart yet, she hunts fresh meat and chops holes in the 3 foot 

 ice this very winter and catches trout with her hook, enough for her house- 

 hold, her husband not able to work, he has a bad complaint." 



"You must please excuse my writing and spelling for I have never 

 been to school, neither had I a spelling book in my young day — me a 

 native of this country, Labrador, Hamilton's Inlet, Esquimaux Bay — if 

 you wish to know who I am, I am old Lydia Campbell, formerly Lydia 

 Brooks, then Blake, after Blake, now Campbell. So you see ups and 

 downs has been my life all through, and now I am what I am — prais the 

 Lord." 



"I have been hunting most every day since Easter, and to some 

 of my rabbit snares and still traps, cat traps and mink traps. I caught 

 7 rabbits and 1 marten and I got a fix and 4 partridges, about 500 

 trout besides household duties — never leave out morning and Evening 

 prayers and cooking and baking and washing for 5 people — 3 motherless 

 little children — with so much to make for sale out of seal skin and deer 

 skin shoes, bags and pouches and what not. . . . You can say well done 



