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clearer sense
As angels do, of love and reverence"-
[[strikethrough]] It craves; but the accent [[/strikethrough]]
But he must labor hard and long and well."
It ceases, but the accents in my soul
Ring like an echo from another sphere.
I fain would make reply, but sluggish speech
Embodies not the flood of welling thought.
Oh, Mother Science, mistress of the world.
And of a thousand thousand worlds unknown;
Of all the secrets of the nether sphere
Of all the truth and majesty of Law that guides the workings of the Universe;
I fain would follow where thy footsteps lead.
Up to the very border of the Throne.
Let him whose faith is weak,
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and I give him two papooses of tobacco. He gives four Indians full suits of deer skin, sables, beads & blankets etc. Very tired sleep in the camp soundly
[[line]] Saturday Dec 21. [[line]]
Morning. Little by little the Indians bring in fish & ukali, all whitefish or pike, Buy about 100 ukali and fifty fish - also two mats and a few berries. Settle up accounts with Tekunka so that we are square on condition that he go down with me in the spring, to the Youkon mouth. Buy three norka and Tekunka gives me five more. Get twenty martins from him on account of the gun I sold him. Qeamy too wants to go down the river in the spring. With start tomorrow & go back another way by Qeamy's barrabora