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you are a temperate man as I hope & believe you are with your ambition you can do an immense good as agency physician and I hope for your peoples good that you will come to Arizona. With Capt. Pratt you would have a much easier place but their are many who could fill well that position while there are few who could do the good you might on the reservations. I too feel that "Charity begins at home" and while we have so much to be done in out own country feel but little interest in foreign missionary work.

I attended a cremation not long ago. The Indians here burn their dear which I think is far more sensible than burying it. But a majority of then still cling to the ideas that all of the diseased personal property must be burned with