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with starting eyeballs and wide expanded nostrils, 

 may be seen straggling with herculean efforts to 

 break loose and obtain safety by flight. 



An extract from a former journal wih 1 give some 

 explanation of such scenes : ' My companion's mount, 

 which was a ragged-looking, weather-beaten veteran, 

 lopped his ears, and appeared to doze, possibly suffer- 

 ing from disinclination to exercise, augmented by the 

 oppression of the smoke-charged atmosphere. The 

 baggage-nag sweat profusely, yet it made no effort 

 to be released, while my Bucephalus struggled and 

 tore around, lashed, reared, and threw itself about, 

 perfectly regardless of consequences. But that its 

 moorings, as a sailor would call them, were strong, 

 it must have broken away, when I should, as far as 

 its services were concerned, have to resort to the 

 ever popular shanks's mare. With no small effort, 

 we secured the struggling brute, but not until it 

 was thrown, when I took my outer hunting-shirt off, 

 placed the animal's head in it a capital illustration 

 of the saying " put your head in a bag/' 



' Hours before the line of flame had neared us, 

 a visible movement was apparent among both birds 

 and beasts. The former flitted past on rapid wings, 

 while the latter exhibited all the evidences of the 

 greatest alarm, as if the emergency had deprived 

 them of sense, many of them hurrying on with 

 uncertain steps, at a loss to determine which route 

 to select. 



' As the flame approached the atmosphere became 



