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comes, there is waiting for you a choice between 

 fever and ague, intermittent, remittent, typhoid, 

 putrid, break-bone, yellow, and d'engue fevers, each 

 of which, when you have it, seems a little worse than 

 all the others until you have one of them also, an 

 event which is very likely to happen, when you dis- 

 cover that your first conclusions were erroneous. 

 Then before you start get good and ready. Look 

 over your fishing tackle ; be sure you have car- 

 tridges enough, and load them all with powder, but 

 not shot, so as to avoid unpleasant explosions. Use 

 your five hundred pounds of shot for ballast. 



Lay in a tub of Northern butter and some white 

 potatoes, but do not imagine you are going to a 

 land of barbarism. You can get better hams, bet- 

 ter hard-tack, and as good and cheap canned goods 

 in Norfolk as you can in New York. Fresh eggs 

 are to be had everywhere, turkeys and chickens are 

 fair, and are sold in market cleaned, and if Southern 

 beef is tough it has a peculiar game flavor which is 

 very agreeable. Take in a good supply of coal; use 

 it for ballast if there is no other place to ctow it, 

 for you may get frozen in during a cold spell, and 

 will surely want plenty of extraneous warmth be- 

 fore you reach the "Sunny South." Then when 

 you are ready, sail up Raritan Bay, get a tow 

 through the Raritan and Delaware Bay Canal, and 

 even across to Delaware City if you please, and so 

 across to the Chesapeake Bay, where your journey 

 may be said really to commence, for thenceforth 

 you will have to rely on your sails and your brains, 



