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I see before me a majestic form
clothed half in brightness, half in shadow
veiled;
A brow sublimely broad and smooth.
An eye
Beneath whose calm regard, hot Passion
dies.
A mouth so grave and firm, a second
glance
But half reveals its sweet benignity.
One arm upraised, upward & onward
points.
Where distant stars, unvaried courses
hold.
Ordained and fitted when from chaos
sprung
The Universe of Law.
The other hand
Extended towards me seems to beckon 
on
Whither? A voice so strong & clear
and sweet.
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early having; for the first time in the country, ridden on the sled nearly all the way. Woolly his wife & boy are all quite sick. Woolly with cold bronchitis, his wife pneumonia, & boy slow fever.
The boy is terribly emaciated & can't live long. He was a bright little fellow & a favorite of mine. Get nine partridges, an owl & a losh.
[[line]] Thursday Dec 19 [[line]]
Start early and pass up a slough of the Youkon and into a low rolling country, full of small lakes and marshes (where I find tamarak growing as at Ulukuk) and near night reach Big Lidorkas barrabora where we expect to sleep but finding only three women there & they just leaving for Tekunkas barrabora, push on with them till we reach it. It is on a small river right bank, and rather high 
A great many Indians