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I will not aid you". Ermine groaned and said "Cure me, for if I die your life will end at the same time. R. refused & started for home hurrying on
day and night to get there before he died for the farther he went the worse he felt until at last he reached his village and had to be carried into the Kashim and lived just long enough to tell his sorrowing people what the had done and the cause of his death and then expired~

He is placed in grave[[?]] box with his bear spear, snowshoes, bow & arrows, flint & tinder for making fire, with an ax as well all placed about conspicuously outside except the flint, tinder & tobacco which were put in his fire bag and laid in the coffin-

When he was buried he (Raven Shaman's Soul) felt himself sinking slowly down, down, until he found himself standing upon the bank of a great river exactly counter futing [[?]] the Yukon he had known since boyhood- shown close around him upon the snow, which covered the progen river and the land, lay the articles [[strikethrough]] he had seen [[/strikethrough]] which had been placed by his grave gathering them up he looked about and saw the track of the Ermine Shaman walking leading up thd frozen river upon the ice and he followed the track.  By and by he saw ahed of him the Ermine Shaman walking slowly along & as R. came nearer E. halted and waited for him

 

Transcription Notes:
grave[[?]], the last character does not look like other "e" characters futing [[?]] from Spanish? Does not seem to make sense here. Cannot make out all letters.