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I just touch the bite with ammonia, and it gives me no pain, 

 and never swells. The black flies do not trouble you after 

 dark, and that's a great comfort." 



I saw a few signs of defaced beauty, but kept mum. In 

 fact, on looking upon those two ladies, I felt proud of such 

 specimens. One of them had visited most of the courts of 

 Europe, and the other had accompanied her triumphant hus- 

 band throughout our recent great war. We therefore num- 

 bered six in the party, two ladies and four gentlemen ; and I 

 am bound to acknowledge that, throughout our month of 

 camp life, hundreds of miles from a post-office, the ladies ex- 

 emplified the highest degree of spirit and pleasure, with the 

 least appearance of annoyance at any discomfort ; and these 

 were the two first white ladies that ever ascended the great 

 St. John River. 



Having examined the surroundings, and admired the great 

 contrasts of the heavens with the mountains, and the wide, 



