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accompanied us (in his canoe) to Tetuka. To tack in the open sea in a 
canoe does require lots of skill! He is the most cheerful person I have 
ever known and another reason I am drawn to him is that I can talk to 
him just as well (with [[underlined]] my [[/underlined]] hands!) as can 
anyone else! He rates plenty of tobacco! 
A year ago tonight I arrived in Port Bruce with Jane. What a perfect 
month that was! Well, in [[underlined]] another month [[/underlined]] (and 
2 days!) — "Hurry up September"! 
H. 
Oneata, Aug 2nd. 
Dear Ed- 
Light shower off & on all day but its been a good one none-the-less. 
Started out the morning to map the western lake & collect from the fine 
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weathered outcrops near it. I told Willy I would buy him a beer for each 
shark's tooth he found. On the first outcrop we both reached out for the 
same one but his knife got there a split second before my hand! A nice 
big tooth & similar (I believe) to a species I have collected from 
Chesapeake Beach. A little later Willy got another - a small cracked 
[[underlined]] Carcharodon megalodon [[/underlined]] Ag. - that nice 
Miocece fossil! On the first batch of outcrops tiny irregular echinoids 
(less than 1/2 inch) were very numerous & we collected more than fifty. 
Small "sand-dollar" type also abundant - all told we got over 100 
complete echinoids today! - several species & many very perfectly 
preserved. Also Pectins, a few poor gastropods, 2 or 3 
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