Sleighing in Summer. 



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tents, possessing t^u'o auctioneers. We reached 

 Fort Charter on the followino- mornino-. The 

 days and nights of the 10th and the 11th had been 

 wet, cold, and foggy; but on the historic 12th the 

 sun shone out brightly, and I thought of the moors, 

 of. the grouse, of the Scotch expresses, of friends 



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Summer sleighiug in Mashonalaud on the high road during the rainy 



season. 



pi'oceeding noi'thAvards, Fort Charter is the coun- 

 terpart of Fort Victoria. It Hes in the centre of a 

 great pLnin ; as far as the eye can range no hill or 

 eminence can be seen. Within half-a-mile flows a 

 rivulet containino; a fair amount of tolerable Avater 

 at all seasons of the year. Both Fort Charter and 



