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shed it & it hung in long shreds from their horns looking like Spanish moss hanging from the branches of a dead cypress.

We told the natives we wished to buy two [[crossed out]] fa [[/crossed out]] deer & they said they would sell us the flesh of two fawns but that they would not part with the skins. I tried hard to get them to kill an old deer so I could get [[crossed out]] their [[/crossed out]] its skin for a specimen but they refused saying they needed the old ones to draw their sledges with all their effects when fall sets in and they have to get out from the mountain valleys to the tundra where there is less snow. Each young man went to the herd & walking up to a fawn caught it by one leg & separating it a little from the herd had his companion hold it [[crossed out]] with its hea [[/crossed out]] by the head while he took his knife & placing the knife point over the heart on the left side & guiding it with the left hand made a quick thrust in & a second turning motion & thrust back so to let the blood flow into the chest cavity. The knife was removed as soon as the deer was laid on its right side. The old woman then came up & taking some blood from about the wound between her thumb & fingers cast it away from the animal along the line of its fore legs. She then laid a green willow stem with leaves & twigs under the fawns nose and then poured, from a tin cup, some water into the side of the fawns mouth as it lay open - then some more upon its rump & more just above the knife wound. The above were all the observances 

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