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As he came near R. thought ah-if I could only kill him again he would be annihilated - E. understood the thought however and said have you [[strikethrough]] I [/strikethrough]] not done enough that you wish to still do me harm? We are both dead now and that should be enough" - All right answered R. lets travel on together as we are going the same way - and so they proceeded and at nightfall they came to the ramparts of the Yukon (300 miles above starting point) and R. taking his ax cut a pile of logs and seated by a cheerful fire they ate of the food their friends had given them when they were buried - each giving the other something to eat - they then went to sleep. The next am - they arose & R. put the charred ends of the logs together which were left from the fire and said our friends who come after us will see the fire place here and will make this their first halting place always after.

Then turning to E. he said "well, which way are you going to take now?" The latter answered "I am going there pointing toward the part of the the heavens now occupied by the Constellation of the Gt. Bear, Ermine, then asked R. where he was going and the latter pointed toward the point in the Eastern sky occupied at that season (December and January) by the morning star Very well I am going said Ermine and he began to float slowly up toward 

Transcription Notes:
. "ah-if" was "ah-h"