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A Truthful Woman in Southern California

CHAPTER XI
15/18

I thought if she should run.

I stepped right round her, and she bowed as if she knew me before, and when the Indians came up they all kneeled down, and when she saw there was some of her color, she held out some of her food and offered all some.
"I took her by the shoulder, and I said, '_Varmoose_,' and she understood at once.

I took everything she had, and she took a big seal head in basket.

We all had something to carry.

Then she had a little brand of fire, and she took that away and wobbled along with a strange kind of a step like until we came to a watering-place about fifty feet down the bank, and they all went down there and she went too, and she sat down there and we watched to see what she would do, and she washed herself over; her hair was all rotting away, a kind of bleached by the sun, and we got to the vessel and she kneeled down, and we had a stove right on deck and she crawled to the stove and we gave her a piece of biscuit and she ate like a good fellow.


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