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3.

pays you the perfect Tribute.
I haven't yet heard her make any
comment to show any difference
in her feeling about any of the men
of the expedition except to speak
of Maurers ability as a hunter =

About her stories, she has a
real gift in the way she expresses
herself. It might be she could
write a group of folk tales -
Legends - and they might be
Saleable. - I don't know about
the value of such
things but I find.

them quite interesting - and
different - the polar bear
tale is like the Japanese fox
woman - and your story is
[on] somewhat similar.
= The milky way is the "Trail
of the Old women" - The great
dipper the caribou and when the
handle is straight out - it means
to the Eskimo good hunting and
many reindeer -

- In telling me about the polar
bear on Wrangel, she said - sometimes
Eskimo say, Polar bear (nanook)
know poor pepl people and does
not hurt them. Then she told
me the story of the poor woman who
had a mean husband - and how
the woman met the bear and looked
in its eyes, all day, sun up to sun
down, "eye to eye' until the bear dropped