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bodyguard for the dangerous bit of road. Ever expecting 

 an attack, I was encamped with only a few people. And 

 in this position I had the experience of seeing the 

 camp flooded in the space of a lew minutes, and losing 

 the calves that had been brought with my cows, besides 

 a large number of other things, in the inundation. My 

 half-benumbed servants sought refuge: in the camp so tar 



Till'. (T.NIKK OK 'III IS likllH.K WAS WITHDRAWN AT NK.IIT -O AS Id 

 KI-.P.l' MK.N AM) lil.A^I^ IkoM CKOSSINC O\1.K To I 1 1 V. IM.AM' 



as they could ; but that night laid the Inundation of many 

 illnesses, which soon claimed their victims. In a trice 

 my tent was torn down, 1 imsell buried under the wet 

 canvas, and all the zoological objects I had brought with 

 me were either carried away or completely ruined. 1" he 

 violence: ol the electric manifestations was beyond descrip- 

 tion : flash upon Hash, and tearful peals ot 

 alternated with terrible rapiditx . 



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