312 TAKE LEAVE OF MY FRIENDS. 



a prairie dog or marmot added to my live stock, I 

 took leave of my most kind friends, and with a promise 

 to keep up my communication with them by letter, and 

 a hope that I should some day see them in England, I 

 went to bed, intending to start on the following morn 

 ing as early as possible. 



