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�stream you ordinarily keep to is a bit for the good walking, at least start across, but here you went square across, as you would tear a piece of cloth. I suppose that was a striking thing [?] early Indians about cloth, it would tear straight, you know how many skins [?], "tear-cloth-rim" was the answer, hardly for us vocabulary people to reach. Down here the [?} forms are not so bad, are apt to be labelled by the rest of the name; our twice adjectives are [?] + [?]; they are very slowly emerging somewhat. Your shamon talk touches a field I have wandered in from the first. These things are hard to be definite about. Various names of early chiefs show the - ands, or-ants of manit[?]. The idea shades down nearly to a plain superlation, we say [?] manitu Kashu, he works very hard, "Tao manitu!" my man letoff in a scrap [?] with an unusually large pike he was trying to get alongside. Everything that has [?], to a boulder, has its manitu; The atshok[?], soul, is another matter it is something to keep our [?] with them all, as needs for: the (Indian) soul is exacting in some ways, + or one may have two or three [?] needs awareness. Yet [?] life don't seem to me so very different, [?] of accessories. In a lot of notes in this, their years old + never gone over. Your eye for the historical side in all these doings, name doings, [?] me; what I come to of it I slide off. Very faithfully yours W.B. Cabot

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