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region, and with many men to subsist, must 

 have, in this ratio, increased the time devoted 

 to the route. But the result was far otherwise. 

 The time devoted to recruit the men not only 

 gave the surgeon of the party an opportunity to 

 heal up the bruises and chafings they complained 

 of, but it replenished them with strength ; 

 they commenced the week's labour with renewed 

 zest, and this zest was in a measure kept up 

 by the reflection that the ensuing Sabbath 

 would be a day of rest. It was found, by com- 

 puting the whole route, and comparing the time 

 employed with that which had been devoted on 

 similar routes in this part of the world, that an 

 equal space had been gone over in less time than 

 it had ever been known to be performed by loaded 

 canoes or (as the fact is) by light canoes before. 

 And the whole expedition its incidents and 

 results has been of a character furnishing 

 strong reasons for uniting in ascriptions of 

 praise to that Eternal Power who hath been 

 our shield from the pestilence that walketh in 

 darkness, and from the destruction that wasteth 

 at noon day" 



