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A JOURNEY TO THE 
179 t. fatigued in body, yet the excruciating pain I fuf- 
ae fered when walking, had fuch an efle@t on my 
27th, 
fpirits, that if the Indians had continued to travel 
two or three days longer at that unmerciful rate, _ 
I muft unavoidably have been left behind; for 
my feet were in many places quite honey-comb- — 
ed, by the dirt and gravel eating into the raw _ 
flefh. | 
As foon as we arrived at the women’s tents, the _ 
firft thing I did, was to wafh and clean my feet — 
in warm water; then I bathed the {welled parts 
with fpirits of wine, and drefled thefe that were | 
raw with Turner’s cerate; foon after which I be- | 
took myfelf to reft. As we did not move on the | 
following day, I perceived that the {welling 
abated, and the raw parts of my feet were not — 
quite fo much inflamed. ‘This change for the — 
better gave me the ftrongeft affurance that reft | 
was the principal thing wanted to effect a fpeedy _ 
and complete cure of my painful though in reali- | 
ty very fimple diforder, (foot-foundering,) which — 
I had before confidered to be an affair of the 
greateft confequence. | 
Reft, however, though eflential to my. fpeedy | 
recovery, could not at this time be procured; for 
as the Indians were defirous of joining the remain- 
der of their wives and families as foon as poffible, | 
they would not ftop even a fingle day; fo that 
on the twenty-feventh we again began to move; — 
and though they moved at the rate of eight or _ 
nine 
