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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.
JUN 25 1865
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what was wrong in my style of operations, nor have I yet learned what was the true cause of our misunderstanding.-  I only know that our work was stopped - and that from that time till a week or ten days ago Col B. was less open and free with me.-  When the Frazer River party started it was with difficulty I could persuade them to take some simple assistance and advice from me as to the Upper Youkon and Dease Rivers - I was informed that I [[strikethrough]] wasnt [[/strikethrough]] was not expected to give them any information etc-  I finally gave Rothrock private letters to Tolmie Brass Hardisty and others.-  If it had not been for him I should have felt very like letting them "go it blind."-  Whether I owe this absurd refusal to allow me to [[strikethrough]] offer [[/strikethrough]] ^[[give]] them assistance ^[[and information]] to some jealousy on Popes part I cannot say.-  I certainly have had some enemies in the camp here who probably disliked me because I undertook to do more work than they [[strikethrough]] I [[/strikethrough]] could!-  I [[strikethrough]] at [[/strikethrough]] have now gotten back to my old footing with Bulkley and that without yielding an inch of my personal dignity etc - to him or any one else - He likes me the better for my

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