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SECTION 88

"So they proceeded and had not gone far when the messengers said, 'Look downward upon the Buffalo Creek reservation.'

"Se he looked and the place seemed honeycombed and covered with a net.

Then the messengers asked him what he saw.

He answered, 'I saw the Buffalo Creek reservation and it seemed honeycombed like ice and covered with a net.' So he replied.

"Then the messengers said, 'Truly! We think that this reservation will fall.' Now they said moreover that it was the duty of the chiefs to preserve it but it should be hard for some should take an upper hand.'"

So they said and he said. Eniaiehuk.


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