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being so excessively cold as to be quite 

 uninhabitable. He has entered by that 

 route two or three times, but has been 

 always obliged to return after a very short 

 stay, in consequence of his men getting ill 

 from the extreme cold, and inferior food. 



The men I have had with me were very 

 subject to spasms in the stomach, brought 

 on by eating either bad or ill-baked flour. 

 I suffered from them once myself, and hope 

 never to do so again. I used, before I felt 

 what the pain was, to fancy that the poor 

 fellows made more fuss than necessary ; 

 but I changed my opinion after a trial. 

 We always carried plenty of laudanum 

 in consequence, it being a certain cure ; 

 thirty di-ops for a dose, with warmth 

 and quiet, and in most cases the suflerers 

 were well and ready to go on the next 

 morning. 



We met several of the pilgrims, some in 

 a state of starvation, and -many die on the 

 road annually from want and disease. 

 They do not mind dying here on holy 



