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dition. But, barring such departures as these, the proposed 

 treaties were to be effected, as I have said, according to 

 precedent. The Comoiission, then, resting its arguments on 

 the good faith and honour of the Government and people of 

 Canada in the past, looked forward with confidence to a 

 successful treaty in Athabasca, the record of travel and inter- 

 course, to that en^, beginning with the following narrative. 



