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a brood of chickens. These, at least at my distance, did not smell, 

 and I supposed would not indulge their respective vernaculars all 

 the night, so I returned, decided to make the best of the situation. 

 But little did I know that by no means had a complete roster of 



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the inmates been taken. I found long before morning that the 

 place swarmed with vermin of all sorts : lice, fleas, mosquitoes, 

 bugs, cockroaches, spiders, and even scorpions. I arose at 2 a. m. 

 and wished to take to the road at once, but had not the heart to 

 waken my tired men before five. Within an hour we were off. 



