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that, at the time, I considered there was 

 too much roughing it, and the want of 

 proper food, I feared would tell much 

 against my constitution, but I am thank- 

 ful to say I have never felt any lasting 

 bad effects from the privations and hard- 

 ships I was forced to undergo. 



In the cool of the evening we did 

 another few miles, as I became impatient 

 to press on. The following morning our 

 march was, at first, a pleasant and peace- 

 ful one. The country we passed through, 

 for a time, was highly cultivated, the dit- 

 ferent corn enclosures being very pretty 

 and home-like ; we did not pass through 

 the village, as it did not lie in our route, 

 nor did we see many natives about. Riding 

 along a footpath through a barley field, I 

 was surprised to see a couple of splendid 

 deer jump up out of the corn and stand 



