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stay there all winter. I shall try and get two barometers, and keep observations although I have no blanks, which I think I mentioned in one of my letters toward the beginning of the winter. I wrote to Mr. Walker that if I couldn't get it any other way I should draw on J.Y. Scammon of Chicago for $50. gold to get a gun and shot with (the Company guns are good for nothing as we found out last year.) if I couldn't get them any other way, but if I can't get Henry Elliott I don't know that it will be worth while to get a gun. I will get the shot & some caps, either out of the Company or from Hubbard. I enclose a note from Canfield. I really wish you could do some thing for him. Well encouraged he will do us great service. I should have presented him with the hygrometer if I could have afforded it. The duck you speak of belonged to an Indian, who wanted my revolver for it, and wouldn't let me have it for less. It was a bad skin and I wasn't sure that it wasn't a female Harlequin or some thing of the kind, so I sketched the head and let it go - it was a little duck. I shall send further particulars as they occur and tele-

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