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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 

 old half-breed woman in Hamilton s Inlet. Good night, God 

 bless us all and send us prosperity. 



&quot;Yours ever true, 



&quot;LYDIA CAMPBELL.&quot; 



&quot;We are going to have an evening worship, my poor old 

 man is tired, he has been a long way today and he shot 2 

 beautyful white partridges. Our boy heer shot once spruce 

 partridge.&quot; 



&quot;Caplin so plentiful boats were stopped, whales, walrusses 

 and white bears.&quot; 



&quot;Muligan River, May 24, 1894. They say that once upon 

 a time the world was drowned and that all the Esquimaux 

 were drownded but one family and he took his family and 

 dogs and chattels and his seal-skin boat and Kiak and Koma- 

 ticks and went on the highest hill that they could see, and 

 stayed there till the rain was over and when the water dried 

 up they descended down the river and got down to the plains 

 and when they could not see any more people, they took off 

 the bottoms of their boots and took some little white [seal] 

 pups and sent the poor little things off to sea and they drifted 

 to some islands far away and became white people. Then 

 they done the same as the others did and the people spread 

 all over the world. Such was my poor father s thought. . . . 

 There is up the main river a large fall, the same that the Amer 

 ican and English gentlemen have been up to see. [Referring 

 to Mr. Bryant, of Philadelphia, who visited Grand Falls.] Well 

 there is a large whirlpool or hole at the bottom of the fall. 

 The Indians that frequent the place say that there is three 



