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longer any mistake about the matter ; ni}' ieet 

 were badl}^ *frozen, so mueh so that I eould 

 not walk for more than seven months. At 

 the end of twenty days my feet showed strong 

 symtoms of mortification, and I was put on a 

 train and taken to Fort Dodge, a distance of 

 sixty miles, for medical treatment. Here I 

 employed a physician to attend me for two 

 dollars a day. He burned otf the dead flesh 

 and scraped the buoe, and at the end of seven 

 months I was able to walk a little, but was 

 lame for a lonof time. 





