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examined. He also brought some spears, arrows and a bow from the tndra below the mouth of the Yukon, and tells me his traders are getting me ethnological specimens on the tundra and sea coast.

20th 21st & 22nd
Charlie remained at the Redoubt and I made some inquiries about the natives along the coast with whom he has had intercourse and among other things about shamanism - It appears that one of the wished for things by the shamans is to visit the moon and various ways are taken to affect the object one of which is to have a shipping noose of rawhide or "remains" placed about their neck and then to have a lot of native take the other end and drag them around the [[?? cash...]] for a considerable length of time. Two noted shamans on the lower Yukon have made the trip in this manner and their obsequies took place the next day. According to the directions of the deceased the people were to expect him the next ferrying time but on being asked after that time had passed whether he had returned yet or not one of the natives of the same village replied that he did come out of the ground a little ways but that he was very small and as there was no one outside but children to feed and care for him at the time he had gone away again.

One of the main objects of their desire to visit the moon is that they think the moon to be a hole through the sky and when you get through it there are plenty of dear, seal &c