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and rivalry between the captains of companies, each 

 being afraid that he should be passed in the race, soon 

 spread to all ranks. You had only to tell a detach- 

 ment that some other company had done a thing with- 

 out any great effort, to ensure its prompt execution. 

 There was also called into play the rivalry between 

 the regulars and the militia. The latter were deter- 

 mined that, no matter what the former did, they 

 would not be beaten. The regulars were in front all 

 the time. One had only to tell them that they were 

 making so little progress that the militia complained 

 of being kept back by their slowness, to cause them 

 to push ahead at any required speed; and, vice 

 versa, if you told the militia that the regulars were 

 running away from them, each successive company 

 hurried on until those in the immediate front were 

 overtaken. Indeed it may be said that each detach- 

 ment trod upon the heels of the one before it, all 

 were so eager to get on. At some shallow places the 

 men had to get into the water, and pull their boats 

 along after them. Occasionally it was necessary to un- 

 load them partially or entirely, the boats being then run 

 down rapids, or hauled over the shallow spots into 

 deep water, where they were reloaded, their cargoes 

 being carried along the banks by the soldiers. At 

 times it blew very hard from the west, so that many 

 detachments were detained one or two days on some 

 of the large lakes, unable even to start. 



A voyage W. by N. of forty miles across Rainy 



