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halt until about ten o'clock at night, when 

 I sat down, was extremely sick, and vomit- 

 ed ; but when the moon rose, which might 

 have been about two hours after, I went 

 on, and travelled until day. 



" During the night I had a path ; but 

 in the morning judged it prudent to forsake 

 the path, and take a ridge for the distance 

 of fifteen miles, in a line at right angles to 

 my course ; putting back, as I went along, 

 with a stick, the weeds which I had bended, 

 lest I should be tracked by the enemy. I 

 lay the next night on the waters of Musk- 

 ingum: the nettles had been troublesome 

 to me after my crossing the Sciota, having 

 nothing to defend myself but the piece of a 

 rug which I had found, and which while I 

 rode I used under me by way of saddle. 

 The briars and thorns were now painful to 

 and prevented me from travelling in the 

 night until the moon appeared: in the 

 mean time I was hindered from sleeping by 

 the musketoes; for even in the dav I was 

 under the necessity of travelling with a 



