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WOMEN AND THE KLONDYKE The Gold Fever Has Found flany Victims Among the Feminine Population of the Country. NOT SO HARD FOR THEM AFTER Those Who Have Returued From the Diggings Report Rough but Not Terrifying Experiences. IT COSTS TO Every Woman Who Becomes a Klondyke Pilgrim Must Have a Warm and Liberal Outfit. Bpecial the (Ilobe. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug.

One phase of the Klondyke sold fever which 1 ie have not considered is that the women have become violently interested. They have followed the example Of the stronger sex in a fashion that they seldom adopt, and nearly every expediti which leaves here for the has many requests made of its members from women who are very anxious to accompany them. It is from the thoroughly respectable of people that these women come. They are mostly composed of hard- Working employes of shops and stores who feel that nature has gifted them sufficient physique to withstand the rigor of the British Columbia climate. Doubtless many of them have an as one that if there is not goW there for them there are at least plenty of men who have gold but tio wives, and that a home and a competence thus awaits them.

The Klondyke has not been destitute of women by any means. The first 1 an to reach there was Mrs. Thomas Lippy, who is now in San Francisco, Bhe and her husband having said good'hy to the Klondyke for a year. Mrs. ami her husband have not trodden the primrose path to any great extent, and therefore this sudden competent which come to them through CMr.

good fortune, finds them ignorant of the ways of enjoying that accrue to the possession of of money. When ili-s. I.lppy was in the rear Dawson City, at first there no members of her sex in that section of the wctid at all, with the exception of a few Indian squaws. The camp was on what is called El- Alora.it. creek, a tributary of the Until the log which, by the way, was the first one In the place y-was built, the hardy couple lived in a tent.

All the furniture they had was made by Mr. Lippy and their only food that which was canned. Mrs. Lippy did no mining herself, but attended Here for the first time is published the most intelligent Klondyke type. Tounj? college men, intellectual as well as physical giants, who are leaving civilization behind to win fortunes in the frozen North.

To such a type belongs A. J. Balliet, Yale's former reaitest oarsman and football player, abandons a handsome law prac tice. to the camp and made her husband so comfortable and enabled him to rest so thoroughly that he accomplished far tnore than falls to the average lot of the miner. After a while another woman came into the country, Mrs.

Charles Berry, who has erroneously been credited with 1 the first white woman in the Klonayko regions. There was a tinge of romance about Mrs. Berry's advent BIM OiyP TUIIIIC h1 A DCD I torLSSc Xn eek me LD BINDING the word OLD-whlch we could sell to our friends at per pound for pure S.sal; per pound IMMi Rahc. IMII BYs" UiVE hX I deslre we could endeavor to purchase for you some of this twine, 15UT we want YOU to REMEMBER that every pountl of twine that we NOW have is NEW ItUUbC IlHUlllU fllilh Li I rt ari a POMDd 9l twine havo we in stock, although we had some early in the season. Send us your orders at once for tail NEW TWINE AT TOE FOLLOW ING PRICES no doubt wi catf ship same within an hour after your order Is received) viz: NEW No.

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AY. nE.AU IB ISIS CAKE FULLY- NOTE THE WORD NEW, which we mean. WILL, FILL TELEGRAPH ORDERS IP your express agent or banker telegraphs us the money has been deposited subject to our to the gold fields, for when she and her husband started they were just married. The Klondyke trip was their honeymoon journey, but how they did work at least Mrs. Berry says they did.

They had no money to speak of, but when they came to Eldorado they camped about a mile from the Llppy camp, and then they both pitched in with the determination that they would get rich. Mr. Berry mined and Mrs. Berry carried part to the cabin and washed it there. She is credited with having washed out $6,000 worth of gold.

As a result of the labors of this couple a snug fortune of $135,000 has been accumulated, and all in less than six months time. These two incidents are the ones that have stirrred the feminine heart. It must not be thought that it is only San Francisco or California women who have the fever, for women have actually come here from the East in hope of being able to in some manner attach themselves to Klondyke expeditions in any capacity whatever, as long as it was respectable. It is almost pitiful to hear them plead. They seem to think that if only they can once reach this Mecca of fortuneseekers all will be well with them ever afterward.

It is by no means an Impossibility for a woman to visit th Klondyke, She must, however, go prepared both for the journey and the residence there. Of course, she should go with a man if possible; otherwise she would have to have all the outfit he possesses in the way of transportation facilities and provisions. Outside tho camping outfit and the food, careful inquiry among the women who have returned from the Klondyke region, shows that the following would be required: One medicine case, filled on the advice of a good physician; two pairs of extra heavy, all wool blankets; one small pillow, one fur robe, one warm shawl, one fur ecat, easy fitting; three warm woolen dre.ises with comfortable bodices and skirts knee length, flannel lined preferable; three pairs of knickerbockers or bloomers to match the dresses, three suits of heavy al! wool underwear; three warm flannel night dresses, four paira of knitted IBW KLOXDYKE TYPE. stockings, one pair of rubber bootts, three glng-ham aprons that reach from neck to knees, small roll of flannel for insoles, wrapping the feet, and bandag-es; a sewing kit, such toilet articles as are absolutely necessary, including some skin unguent to protect the fact from the icy cold; two light blouses or shirt waists for summer wear, one oilskin blanket to wrap her effects in, to be secured at Juneau or St. Michaels; one fur cape, two pairs of fur gloves, two parls of fur- THE SAINT PAUL GLOBE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 8, 1897.

seal moccasins, two pairs of muclucs wet weather moccasins. She wears what she pleases en route to Juneau or St. Michaels, and when, she makes her start for the diggings she lays aside every civilized traveling garb, including shoes and corsets, until she comes out. Instead of carrying the fur robe, fur coat and rubber boots along, they may be purchased on entering Alaska, but the experienced ones advise that they be taken along. The natives make a fur ouat with hood attached called a "parki," but it is clumsy for a hite woman to wear who has been accustomed to fitted garments.

Leggins and shoes are not so safe nor desirable aa the A trunk is not the thing to transport baggage in. It is much better in a pack, with the oil skin cover well tied on. The things to add that are useful but not absolutely necessary are ohoeolate, coffee and the smaller light luxuries. When a woman reaches the Klondykje, always provided she has all the things that are necessary, she will find a region that is, as a rule, as inhospitable tis Terra del Fuego. To reach there she has encountered, if she has come over the land route from Juneau, any amount of privation and very little pleasure.

If her journey has been by water, then she knows what it is to be wtH'k after week subjected to the crowded accommodations of an illfitted passenger boat. Anything will seem pleasant after that water journey, and therefore it is probable that whether her trip has been by land or sea, she will be glad enough when she reaches a stopping place that is permanent. She can to market in the Klondyke if she likes, but how she will have to pay for it, unless she adopts the metropolitan method of shopping where one merely looks and buys nothing at all. She will find such dress goods and articles of women's wear as she is able to purchase, many times the price in the United States, and always oldfashioned. If she wants to buy flour, she is likely to have to pay anywhere from $12 to $100 for a sack of 100 pounds.

Good porterhouse steak costs $2 a pcund. Bacon is never less than 80 cents a pound. For canned goods, she will have to pay from 150 to 250 per cent higher than in this city, and even at that they are considered cheap. Rice, that cheapest of all commodities, is 75 cents a pound in the Klondyke, while tea, even the poorest, is not less than $3 a pound, and that absolute essential, coffee, is sometimes, on bargain days, sold at $2.25 a pound. Butter is a distinct luxury.

If the feminine emigrant gets it, she will ba lucky, and in any event she will pay $4 a pound. If she is a married woman and wants to give her husband eggs with his coffee she will have to be willing to pay for the eggs at the rate of $3 per dozen. one turns up his nose at potatoes in the Klondyke, for they cost $2.50 a oound. A lemon at 25 cents is considered very cheap, and it is a fortunate day when anybody can buy oranges at 50 cents apiece. This menu is not so very extensive for this part of the country, but it is for the Klondyke.

A real course dinner at the diggings would be considered something to be marveled at. Another astonishing case, something which has already been published, is that of Mrs. J. T. Willis, of Tacoma.

Ten weeks ago Mrs. Willis was poor. Today she is worth a quarter of a million, and all on account of the Klondyke. Two years ago Mrs. Willis, whose husband is a blacksmith, and a great sufferer from rheumatism, decided to try her luck among the gold fields of the frozen North.

She set out alone and vowed that she would not return until she could bring a fortune with her. She has kept her word. After two years of prospecting and just when her spirit and her fortune were at the lowest ebb, there came a report to Dawson City of a big placer strike on the Klondyke. Joining a oarty of cattlemen, Mrs. Willis hurried to the new Eldorado, staked a claim; and so she realized more than 5300.000 for it.

Not -F-attsfied with this, however, she established a laundry at Dawson City, and was the firsts to introduce the "boiled shirt" arhorg the miners. It made a great hit, and notwithstanding the- fact that Mrs. Willis is compelled to pay $250 for a box of starch, her enterprise is prospering greatly. An Indian squaw who works in laundry receives $4 a day and expanses, and the log cabin in which the work is done i 3 rented for $35 a month. Wood for fuel costs nearlyl $500 a year.

Before the turn of fortune's wheel made Mrs. Willis wealthy worked as cook for the mess the Alaska Commercial company, Dawson. Efforts have been made to steal the woman's claim, but to a friend, Mrs. P. Hicks, she writes: "I have gone through death, and a fight is now made to take possession of my claim, but I will stand by my right if it takes five years." It is estimated here by those who have kept track of the matter, that at least seventy-five women of thorough respectability are now on their way to the Klondyke, and unfortunate as it may be, will have to stand the privations that seem positively assured to the population of the Klondyke this coming winter.

Mrs. Lippy, who is probably the best posted woman of ali who have come cut of the Klondyke, says sine has three bits of advice tor women who are going there. They are: Be sure you are perfectly strong and able to endure hardship. Don't think for a moment that you are going to have an easy time of it at all. Be sure you don't go unless yon are well equipped with all necessaries and prepared for emergencies.

Mrs. Liippy says that if all the women that go north follow this advice they will have very little trouble in making existence there as near a pleasure as it is possible for it to be. BIRLISGTOX ROITE EXCURSIONS. Note the Offers at Rednred Rntes Made by the Bnrlingrton. To Boston and return, only $39.50.

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The Wonderful Tales Told By Returned Miners Have Been Collected and Sifted. Special Correspondence of the Globe. SEATTLE, Aug. The excitement created here by the first reports received of the discovery of gold In almost unlimited quantities at Klondyke has increased with each returning day, and is hourly growing in intensity. The arrival of the North American Transportation and Trading company's steamship Portland with returning miners carrying a ton and a half of gold in dust and gold worth $1,000,000 in coin had fanned the excitement to fever heat.

Much of the substance of the stories told by these returned miners has already been spread broadcast thrown the land and found its way by cable to Europe, but 1 am now enabled for the first time to put these stories together and give details gathered from personal talk with the wealth-laden Argonauts. All the men who have returned from Klondyke unite in saying that gold beyond the dreams of avarice is there. All have gold dust or some more, some to show as the result of their labors. No one has returned empty-handed. Many of the men who have come back from Klondyke are residents of Seattle.

Others are from San Francisco, from Los Angeles, or from other places along the coast. Most of them are from the Northwest. Among the most fortunate of the miners is Clarence Berry, a farmer, of Fresno, who brought back seven sacks of dust and nuggets, worth He had been in the Yukon gold fields for three years, meeting with but little success. Last, fall he returned home and was married. Determined to try his luck again, he went back to Alaska, and, hearing of the discovery of gold at Klondyke, went there, and, as he says, "struck it rich." William Stanley, formerly a blacksmith in this city, went to Alaska two years ago and was among those who returned on the Portland.

He had with him $115,000 worth of gold found on Bonanza creek, about five miles above Dawson City. Henry Anderson, a Swede, who Is well known in Seattle, came back with a good supply of gold dust and $45,000 he had received for half his claim on the Klondyke. Frank Keller, of Los Angeles, went to Alaska last year and returned with $35,000 received for his claim. William Sloat, a former dry goods merchant of Lanimo, B. has $52,000 received for his claim.

A fellow resident of Lanimo, named Wilkenson, sold his claim for $40,000. Jack Home, a professional pugilist of Tacoma, was among the few who might be called unlucky. He brought back only $6,000 worth of dust. Frank Phiscator, of Baroda, has $96,000 worth of dust and nuggets. J.

Kelly, of Tacoma, went to Alaska last year with his son. He returned on the Portland with $10,000 in gold, and his son is still at work on their claim taking out more. Robert Kooks brought back $14,000 in gold dust and $12,000 he received for his half interest in a claim. He has an interest in another claim and intends to return after he has had rest and enjoyment. J.

B. Hollinshead, after two years spent in the diggings, can show $25,000 worth of dust, and still possesses a claim to which he intends to return. M. S. Norcrosa was one of those who were looked upon as unfortunate.

He selected a claim, but became ill and could not work it, so he was compelled to sell out for $10,000. Thomas Flack has only $6,000 worth of dust, but has a claim at Klondyke for which he has been offered $50,000. He intends to return to work it himself. Con returned with a third share of $33,000 worth of dust taken out in forty-five days' work. "I brought down just I.OOO ounces of dust and sold it to the works said William Kulju.

"I sold my claim for $25,000. When I went to Klondyke last summer I had only a few dollars and a pack. Now lam going home to Finland, but I am coming back next year." John Marks was the possessor of in dust. "There is plenty of gold in Alaska," he said, "more, I believe, than the most sanguine imagine, but it cannot be obtained without great effort and endurance. The first thing for a poor man to do when he reaches the country is to begin prospecting.

As snow is from two to five feet deep, prospecting is not easy. Snow must first be shoveled away, and then a fire built on the ground to melt the ice. As the ground thaws the shaft must be sunk until bed rock is reached. The average prospector has to sink a great many shafts before he reaches anything worth his while. If gold is fcund in sufficient quantities to pay for working, he may begin drifting from the shaft, and contfrine-to do so as long as he finds enough goFcl to pay." Fred Lendoseen returned with $15,000 worth of gold after two years spent in Alaska.

"I have Considerable experience in he-said today, "and" 1 say without hesitation that Alaska is the richest country I have ever seen. I have an interest in a claim near Dawson and am going back in the spring." G-reg Stewart brought- back $45,000 received for his olaimStnCa good quintsty of dust he had takers crtit before selling Hollinshtad and iffe.vrS.it. who worked as partners, had of dust. Among the seekers are Prof. Thomas C.

and his of this city. Prof. was formerly secretary of the Y. fA. C.

of Seattle. He ha.s with him worth of gold and still owri'S a fci which he says there is at least more in Mrs. Lippy was the first white woman who went into the new camp at Klondyke. She is a small, brown-haired, brown-eyed woman, tanned until her face is as brown as her eyes and hair, but seemingly in perfect health and bearing no ill effects of the hardships she endured. 'The country is beautiful," said Mrs.

Lippy today, "and quite warm in summer, It is different, you know in winter. Still even In the coldest weather I went out every day, though not very far. I waa the first white woman to reach Klondyke Creek and was the only one in our camp. Mrs Berry was the only white woman I had to speak to while I waa there She was with) her husband in the next camp, a mile away." "How do we live?" repeated Mrs. Lippy, in answer to a question.

"Well at first we lived in a tent, it was twelve feet by eighteen, elg-ht logs high, with mud and moss roof, and moss between the chinks, and had a door and window. Mr. Lippy made the a rough bed, table, and some stools. We had a there are plenty of stoves in that country, and that was all we needed. The cabin was cozy I looked after the housekeeping and Mr.

Llppy the -mining." "And eating," continued Mrs. Llppy, "well, we had no fresh meat, no fresh milk, no fresh fruit, no eggs, it was all canned food, but 3till we kept in good health." Mrs. Lippy I 9 a good rifle shot and brought with her the antlers of a moose which she had shot. J. O.

Hostwood, of this city, one of the successful gold seekers, told how the gold was discovered at Klondyke. "The discovery," he said, "was made by an old hunter named George Mc- Cormlck, who is called Kiwash George. He Is married to a squaw and has several half breed children. MoCormick went up in the spring of 1896 to the mouth of the Klondyke to fish, as salmon weighing ninety pounds are eauprht where this stream meets the Tukon. The salmon didn't run as usuial and MeCormick, hearing from the Indians of rich placers near by where gold could be washed out in a frying pan, started out to prospect.

"Near what is now Dawson City he struck very rich pay dirt in a side hill. A3 soon hs news of his discovery spread men frcm Circle Out from the north came a note as bold As the iron clang of a midnierht bell; And. carried by wind and tide, Echoing far and wide, Ii struck the hearts of men as it fell With a tierce wild clar.gor of Gold! Gold! GoU! IIOBmuOLD IS MINED. The Shortness of the Season and the Condition of the Soil Work to the Placer System. Special Correspondence of the G'obe.

SEATTLE, Aug To only a comparatively small number of the emigrants flocking to the Klondyke are the methods of mining in vogue there known, and, if they were to be told it was the placer system, many of them would by no means be enlightened. That is just the plan, however. The placer system is the only one generally available where the hand of Old Winter has so firm a grasp as in the Klondyke region. By placer mining is meant that system which involves the separation of the virgin gold from the earth by means of water. In other words, it is washed out.

It is really panning gold on a huge scale. The other system of gold mining is known as quartz mining. In this latter case the gold is found imbedded in quartz, and is taken from the mines to stamp mills, where the quartz is stamped or crushed, and thus put in such a condition that the gold and quartz can be separated by a process which is so technical that to be thoroughly understood it needs to be seen. When a Klondyke prospector has staked out his claim, which must be as near water as possible, and generally about 500 feet in length, he makes an experimental panning as a test of the claim. This may show very little at first, but when it is considered that 5 cent dirt that is, ground that washes or pans out 5 cents worth of gold to the is paying property, it may be seen that the miner's standard is not so very high.

Many a case has lately been reported from the Klondyke where the dirt has washed out $50 to the pan. With a claim of 5 cent dirt the miner, if he is industrious, may be reasonably sure of $50 a day. With $50 dirt, City and Forty Mile rushed In. The richest claims are In Bonanza creek, which empties Into the Klondyke three miles above Dawson City. There are three claims in that district, each 600 feet long, extending clear across the creek, on which it is located.

No ono can file an additional claim until he has recorded his abandonment of his old claim. "In the adjoining Bunker district there are 200 claims. The two districts have been well prospected, but further up the Klondyke Is much territory which has never been even traveled over. "Old miners declared that the north side of the Yukon was worthless, so no prospecting was done until MeCormlck started in. There is no claim-jumping, as the Canadian laws are rigidly and well enforced.

"There was a rush for Klondyke as soon as the discovery was made known, and I was among the first to get there. I had poor luck at first, and after a few days started to leave, but I had only got a short distance down the river when my boat got stuck in the ice and I went back to Dawson City. I bought a claim, and it proved one of the richest in the district. "In the region now worked there are a score of creeks, each rich in gold deposits. The creeks comprising the bonanza districts are Bonanza, El Dorado, Victoria.

Adams, McCormlck, Roddy Bullion, Nugget Gulch, Bear, Baker and Ohee-Chaw-Ka. In the Hunter district are the Main Fork, Hunker and Gold Bottom creeks. The banks of these streams aro dotted with white tents of miners, and a prettier sight i would bo hard to find. Over on Dominion creek gold has beon found and 300 miners started for that place the day we started for San Francisco. The surface prospects are quite as favorable as on the Bonanza, "It is easier to reach Dawson City now than when the discovery of gold was announced.

Appliances have been placed at all the mountain passes, so that heavy loads are pulled up steep inclines and lPt down on the other side. I look for a big rush next, year, and there will be wonderful stories to tell TRAGIC SIDE OF FEVER. As the dreadful clamor filled the air, The brains of toiling men caught fire, And madness came from the mad desire For Gold. Good and the right were alike forgot. Aye, home and wife and all things fair Were fast shut out by a horrible blot Of Gold.

he is a millionaire, if his claim is of any considerable extent. U-sting of a claim is, however, only the beginning. After it has been proved to be worth working, it is neeeasary to prepare for more extensive operations. The first thing is to make the sluice boxes. In the Klondike, lumber is a scarce and -very expensive article, provided it is purchased all ready for sluice purposes.

If the miner is industrious he will fell enough trees from the thousands that cover the rugged lands about him to make all the sluice box lumber that he will need. It is much more economical for him to put in the time and labor necessary to do this than to buy the lumber ready made. When the lumber is ready, it is converted into sluice boxes of whatever leng-th the miner may deem advisably. These boxes are then placed in position, and all is in readiness for the washing process. Now comes the necessity for getting the dirt into the boxes.

It is always the that paydir dirt containing gold lies next to rock. This being the case, it is necessary to clear away the gravel that between the surface and the pay dirl. It is a laborious task in any event, but when one has to face Klondyke seasons, it is still more difficult. Sometimes it happens that as much as twenty-five feet of gravel must be removed before pay dirt is reached, and, when the most of this has to be done within sixty days, besides washing out the pay dirt, the necessity for hard work is apparent. As a rule, the depth of the surface gravel is aboui eight feet, and at this depth it is possible for a miner to get to his pay dirt and wash a good bit of it in one season.

Many of those who are on their way to the Klondyke today cherish the belief that all the miners do when they pan out gold is to dig out of a surface lode and make all the money they want to. On the contrary, it is often necessary for a miner to spend an entire season clearing away the 17 when the season Is ended. "Dawson City is not a paradise by any means, but there are much worse places ln er COld intense, but as there is plenty of timber around we do not suffer. Our summer lasts about six weeks, but during that time it is very warm. The day we started was 93 degrees in the shade.

The is our worst enemy." Miners who have reached here do not act like people who have suddenly jumped from poverty to comparative wealth. They very level-headed. They went to the beat hotels and they are living on the fat of the but they do not throw money away no J- one star ed In to paint the town red They have worked so hard that they appreciate the value of money. What they de! in most are theaters and other amusements They say no one knows how to enjr.y thesa If he has not spent a year in Alaska. Threequarters of the miners will return in the spring, when they are well rested.

The returned miners say that one of the peculiar features of the new camp Is the lack of shooting, due to the fact that the Canadian government does not permit men to carry fire arms. Police disarm minors when they enter the district, bo that there any of the 'awlessness and crime which marked earlier placer mining in California. There Is much gambling and play fcj high. An old miner, Alexander Orr who spent eight winters in Alaska, but will not return, said today; "Dawson is not like most of the large nlng camps. It is not like a tough town- murders are almost unknown.

The miners are a quiet, peaceable kind of men, who havo gone there to work, and are willing that everybody else shall have an equal chance with themselves. A great deal of gambling is done In town, but serious quarrels are the exception. As a gambling town. I think it is equal to any I have ever seen, and this, by the way, is always a test of a mining camp's prosperity. Stud poker is the usual game.

They play $1 ante, and ofton bet $300 or $500 on the third card." Oh God, dear God. ere it be too late, Have pity, for wives' and children's sake. And let the threat of the blast of cold Turn maddened men from their lust of gold; Our Father, for the children's sake. J. A.

Kemps ter. surface gravel from the pay dirt of his claim. The statements often made that it is impossible to do any work during the winter season are erroneous. Nearly ail the tunneling is accomplished at ihat time of year. Fire is the agent by means of which the tunneling is done.

There is plenty of wood to be obtained, and so the miner builds a roaring fire next to the gravel through which ho wishes to Naturally, this melts the frost out of the gravel, which is then shoveled out. This method does not prove successful with surface gravel. Occasionally it happens th.it a claim is too far from water, and in su.h cases several fortunes have been rockod that is rockers have been used. The rovker is just what Us name indicates. The dirt is placed within it and it is rocked until dirt and gold nave been thoroughly shaken apart.

Thla system is used only on rare occasions for as a rule water is sufficiently plentiful to make the ordinary methods of nlr.ocr available. A corioja fact that the placer mining of the Klondyke region has developed is that these mines arc nearer the original sources than any ever discovered on the American continent. The Cullfornian mines wore never traceable, geologists say, hut tbesa latest discoveries give distinct evidence of bring near the source from which they originally came. Placer mines are In reality deposits. The ice which formed the glaciers, mixed with groat stones, at time or another wrenched from the original gold deposits fragments of the riches there located by nature.

These fragments, swept along by tho hug? rivers of ice. have found resting places at various points, forming what we know as placer mines. Tho geologists who have examined the- Klondyke mines say that the original gold fields are not far distant from Klondyke. Tt is therefore quite possible that the stories from the North about still richer finds are true, and that the real Eldorado is by no means reached as yet. Cliimjfe of Time on St.

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