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to go to the moon when ever anything unusual occurs and in addition they say that is where all the seals and deer come from and if they get there they can throw enough to make good hunting again. The Russian priest from Mission (here a short time ago) said there was an eclipse of the moon about the 13th of Feb'y and that about the same time some dozen or more natives died from a throat disease, upon this two native shamans, father & son, started to go and see the man in the moon to see what he meant by their having such an epidemic and what must be done to stop it. After an absence of several days they returned and reported that they had climbed nearly to the moon when the old man became tired out and the younger went on alone until he was very near when the man in the moon came down to meet him and appeared very angry and asked what he wanted, he made known his errand in great fear but determined to brave it out. The man in the moon informed him that the epidemic was going to kill a number of people and then stop. But he was determined not to let his visitor return but the old man who was down below begged so effectively for his release that he at last relented and the pair returned & gave their valuable(?) information to the people-

Charley Peterson gave an account of the pretended burning of a shaman on the tundra south of the Yukon. The natives were all assembeled in the Cashine