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been given me separately some time ago. You will have from fifty to a hundred songs to transcribe when I come home in December. It will be easy work comparatively, as I shall write out the words before I come and that always helps a lot.

The Summer heat is over and now we are having frosts and the weather is quite cool, cold in the nights and mornings.

I have secured another Wa-xo-be quite different, I am told, from the others. It is not yet in my possession but it is given to me. I shall not report it to the Bureau until it is actually in my possession.

This evening I start for Columbus to attend that Indian meeting. I do not believe in it at all and do not want to go but I am obliged