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failing to discover the farmer's residence, of which 

 even the existence was extremely uncertain, I 

 should make the best of my way to the Colony, now 

 probably less than one hundred miles distant, 

 whence, having procured fresh teams, I could re- 

 tuin to the relief of the wreck with all practicable 

 expedition. 



