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party of men conducting a pack-train, and they gave her what provisions 
she could take, and volunteered to guide her to the nearest Indian ranche- 
ria; but the poor soul could not understand a word they uttered, or if she 
did, preferred to take her chances of casual whites rather than throw her- 
self again on a people whose hearts a hard and bitter poverty had steeled, 
or invoke again even that cheap humanity of blood-relationship which years 
of calamity had destroyed. - 
THE LO-LON‘’-KUK. 
The Lo-lon’-kik live on Bull Creek and the south fork of Eel River, 
owning the territory between those streams and the Pacific, along which 
they have a prescriptive right to a certain length of frontage for fishing 
purposes. They have the same language and customs as the Mattoal, and 
no separate description of them is required. Their name has been cor- 
rupted by the Americans into Flonk’-o, by which they are generally known. 
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