In the Time That Was, by James Frederic Thorne

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Title: In the Time That Was

Author: James Frederic Thorne

Illustrator: Judson T. Sergeant

Release Date: May 16, 2008 [EBook #25483]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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In The Time That Was

Dedicated to Ah-Koo

Done into English by J. Frederic Thorne (Kitchakahaech)

Illustrated by Judson T. Sergeant (To-u-sucka)

Seattle, Washington, U. S. A.

BEING THE FIRST volume of a series of Legends of the tribe of Alaskan Indians known as the Chilkats--of the Klingats As told by Zachook the "Bear" to Kitchakahaech the "Raven"

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In the Time That Was

"And There Was Light."

Zachook of the Chilkats told me these tales of The Time That Was. But before the telling, he of the Northland and I of the Southland had travelled many a mile with dog-team, snowshoes, and canoe.

If the stories suffer in the telling, as suffer they must afar from that wondrous

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