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and the brave men have fallen, before the iron 

 man s sickness. You have come too late for 

 them. 



&quot;He paused, and again his adviser prompted 

 him in low tones, after which he resumed: And 

 now another enemy has arisen. It is the spirit 

 of the fire-water. Our people have learned how 

 to make it, and it has turned friend to foe. This 

 also has come from the land where the sun rises. 

 It is bad medicine of the Yetz haada (iron 

 people). It has weakened the hands of our 

 hunters. They cannot shoot as their fathers 

 did. Their eyes are not clear. Our fathers 

 eyes were like the eagle s. The fire-water has 

 dimmed our sight. It came from your people. If 

 your people had the good news of the Great 

 Chief, the Good Spirit, why did they not send 

 it to us first and not these evil spirits ? You have 

 come too late. With these words he sat down.&quot; 



The space at our disposal will not permit us to 

 follow, at length, Collison on his return to the 

 Islands, accompanied by his brave wife and their 

 little son. His first residence, however, must be 

 House 00 8 mentioned : The morning following our arrival, 

 he says, &quot;I found a small log hut in which the 

 skins of fur and hair seals had been stored and 

 salted, but which was now empty. This I cleaned 

 out, and in it erected a small stove which I had 

 brought with me from the mainland, and here we 

 were indeed glad to find shelter. It was only 

 10 by 12 feet, but I succeeded in partitioning off 



