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women Indians that lives under that place or near to it I am 

 told, and at times they can hear them speaking to each other 

 louder than the roar of the falls.&quot; [The Indians always think 

 the mist of a waterfall signifies the presence of ghosts.] 



&quot; I have been the cook of that great Sir D. D. Smith that is 

 in Canada at this time. [In the days when Lord Strathcona 

 was chief trader at Hamilton Inlet.] He was then at Rigolet 

 Post, a chief trader only, now what is he so great ! He was 

 seen last winter by one of the women that belong to this bay. 

 She went up to Canada. . . . and he is gray headed and bended, 

 that is Sir D. D. Smith.&quot; 



&quot; August 1, 1894. My dear friends, you will please excuse 

 my writing and spelling the paper sweems by me, my eyesight 

 is dim now &quot; 



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