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A Truthful Woman in Southern California

CHAPTER XI
12/18

This dress the priests sent to Rome.
The demijohn in which she carried water was made out of rushes and stopped with asphaltum.

She was making one of these water bottles.

She heated small round stones in the fire and put them in the asphaltum, and then lined the bottle, making it tight.

She had no matches, of course, nor even a tinder-box, but started fire by rubbing two sticks together.
She said her child was eaten up by wolves.

None of the Indians understood her dialect; finally one woman was found who could talk to her a little, who had been raised on the same island.


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