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peoples, including a notable individual known as Gave Acquin, with whom he frequently collaborated while exploring the province. According to an exhibit chairwoman, Taylor could fluently speak the
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to process photographs, and took with him all of his equipment, including this portable darkroom, camera, chemicals and negatives. Taylor revisited the
Tobique River in the following decades.
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