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XCli THE 3T0RY OF THE THREE GHOSTS.
* ' ' r Onto upon tine th* r< vxro thrci ghosta a sum- to haunt Chitimi
, ;mo thin la’ how it came about, jfjgp
The cnrli .r Indi* ns Who lived in the Copper River country^
.subsisted' mostly on 3 .lmon caught c»u/;hv in the river with dip nets
that the v.onen wove fren spruce roota, But in tlx summer of 189S
v*'there vjrc almost no salmon up tlv. river. Only God knows why.
Th. Indiana work'u h-ru and Ion;: but got almost no fish and headed
Into th, following long, cola v.Inter with no food supply in their
store rooms• Th - :.xn ro - M,d the hills cby after day but mostly cunc
buck without gam-' •
The re w» 3 on« family of r, father and mother and a little girl
by .tn. narv. of 3-costa. They decided to no up the Kaddena River on
a ch'yfic. tht- th y could find sow. gam- , there » It v/a3 a h .rd, cold
Journey.'Th*.y v. nt ir.to an old house that had bain built chare many
Vv> iw b for. .ad .tl; 'bin, ruri. d Indian v;-. nt cut looking for food,He
lavaci his -fefcilly anc h; triad’ wfully h rd to take care of them. He
arch*.a v ry day for food but could find nothing but the 3v:eet
film that lit 3 under th*; rough cottonwood bark. Hut that was too
little. One day •..hen he cwo in awpty handed lx was r»o exhausted
that he just dropped down on the cabin floor ana cii-’d. The mother
• took his bocy »ut and buried it in tlv; snow, she could do no more.
me mother trloa aespsrnt'.-ly to find some food for her self and
th little girl; but It was no us'3, In a few days they too were
lying dead on the cabin floor*.
. ' The hungry wolvorinc3 cane Into the cabin and ate -the dead
oodles, they did not leave cvt-.n a piece of bone. , •
bow, as yoi may know, the Indians In this part of the world
will never live in a house in which anyone has died, they will net
•:.v-n wall: Into it. Am: since, the Indiana co not 11.w. to have a pood
house spoiled!*or use because sone-one died in It, the Indians had the
very practical custom Of putting nil# member #f the-ir family who tlx;
misfortune of becoming V'-ry old or very sick out in a small tent or
out builaing to ale and thus not ruin a house. There are several
Indian cabins around ohit inn that have long stood abandoned and do
caying because someone vaa inconsiderate- *.-nuf to c.i'. in then.
, 4-a fdi'.-ii r'.wialncici au-'nw
* Th-.1 hou3G vheru the Sm%o*tu i onii...
gv 3-rW- for yw-. i's and -'V**1 *• •. ^ w the. nar.G of Mert killer.
In tV.'. i'ean ol Chitin.i Uv a C»l £ but si*, la hope Us si;;
Sh. sol ns f-’.i.-l.' uort.un anu m.'nitu, six la apt to put
goof;- about trout i^^^Va'vo-d.nrrlnr off Into the brush
■ -.on Iilu- lorn; hoots, ■> ■* *i'-1 o - r ;lh, rot started up the.
to catch trout .ana ft-^llnc. y»J-» Z ^>'A civ.'lost oil sense of
*Kad--">nn stroma »«na ttv. ' ? ‘ t0~ "t (iusk 3ho realized that
til-.;- anti distance ana -'hj-n It ■£ A oul(. bu about Impossible.
siv. was a lonir from that ^ v/ans Vl she
to find h'-r way uojn.. In tho u ^1 . travailing down'
thw croulc r* lot •vii3l^r. ,, . xe nt that in Alaska In
This W-JouUhayo b. n all : laht -^p^th. tf
the lat«.r part ol ourra -2. u* . . < rv,^ funk of and
that land pn’a p.rson v ltn i.m s._■ •» anywhere and
riy $ building* •
.V0l-vh. ; *kbvlel f;n,ts ah..n jk. an
old, tumbled do\m hullo In/-, It was nuprinc anu fall In,to ni.c.S.
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