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the town, and there prepared to camp. We pitch- 

 ed our tent on a creek bottom, near enough to 

 the bank to make it handy to get water, and at 

 the foot of a hill covered with scrub-oak. In 

 selecting a place for a camp in cold weather 

 the main things to look after are shelter 

 from the northwest winds and close prox- 

 imity to wood and water. I had no camp-stove 

 then, and it was necessary to keep up a big 

 fire near the mouth of the tent all night, so that 

 plenty of wood was required. The country for 

 miles around was successive hills and hollows, 

 with scrub-timber in places and much brush, 

 called barrens. Having pitched the tent and 

 plied our axes for wood, Lindsay and 1 left 

 Colonel Roberts to put things to rights, took our 

 guns, and went to look about a little. In less than 

 half an hour I killed two turkeys. This was a good 

 beginning. 



We returned to the tent, where Colonel Roberts 

 speedily distinguished himself as a capital cook. 

 Having picked and cleaned a turkey, he desired 

 me to put up two short stakes with forks at the 

 upper ends pretty close to the fire, while Lind- 

 say was required to furnish a thin, straight stick. 

 With this last the colonel spitted the turkey, and 



