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required ; for I found she had not come away 

 without money, of which we now began to 

 feel the great benefit, and I did not 

 hesitate to use her money, as I hoped to 

 repay it tenfold some day. We could 

 not hear a word about our army ; and, 

 such was the ignorance of the natives, 

 that, I believe, unless the troops had 

 actually marched through their own 

 villages, they would not have known any- 

 thing at all about them ; indeed, we had 

 gone now so far from the scene of our 

 fighting, that many of the natives we 

 spoke to on the subject had not even 

 heard that the " Faringees " had invaded 

 their country. 



One day when my guide went to a 

 village to bring some food, she was told 

 that a sick stranger had been resting there 

 for a few days. By the description of the 



