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"Me been seen 'em tracks," he said; "she gone straight ahead, me think so me'd better leave 'em lone. Me have 'um rib-pole our camp, under rib-pole some clean shirt, some po'k, some otter skins. Me left 'um camp few days; come back; some body's been there." He described the loss of his things and how he followed up the trail & found places where the wolverine had buried different articles. In the night he came again. Polis shot him by torch light between the eyes & found him dead the next morning. While it might have been a catamount it was more likely a wolverine.

Clara Neptune says that Joe Polis was 1st cousin to her father ____ Mitchell*; they were sons of twins & very intimate. *(They were both of the Bear gens. Joe Polis was son [underlined] of Polin Wassores.) She declares that he went to England & got medals from the queen; he got money also much of it, but they thought he buried it, for they could not find it. On his death bed he sent for her because she was a fornite [sic? struck through] farnite [?]. She says he had no own children, but an adopted son (doesn't say what became of him) He married out of the tribe. His brother Pielpole left a daughter Tomuhin (Tometen appears on Gen Blake's roster of 1814 as family 3 2 girls) who was mother of Peter W. Ranco & died not so very many years since

Peter W. Ranco says same of Tomuhin, who was his mother - [last 3 underlined]