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her beauty being the attraction & the purchase of mocassins the ostensible object. She has been courted for the year past in person and by proxy by David [T/F?] erebeaux, a young Indian trader of half breed descent and the ceremony of marriage was yesterday performed at our camp. [ADDED BTW LINES: two horses were given for the bride]. At the commissioner's marquee were assembled the bride & groom & his relatives, the Governor & the commissioner, & [suits?] the [voyagers?] half-breeds & [canadian?] & the Indians. Mr. Alexis Bailey the magistrate present read the service of the Episcopal church