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expedition. We shall have nothing to write about when 

 we get home. I may say the same of my comrades as I 

 have said for myself; they all look healthy, fat, in good 

 condition ; none of the traditional pale, hollow faces ; 

 no low spirits — any one hearing the laughter that goes 

 on in the saloon, ' the fall of greasy cards,' etc. {see 



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Juell's poem), would be in no doubt about this. But 

 how, indeed, should there be any illness.'^ With the best 

 of food of every kind, as much of it as we want, and 

 constant variety, so that even the most fastidious can- 

 not tire of it, good shelter, good clothing, good ventila- 

 tion, exercise in the open air ad libittini, no over- exer- 

 tion in the way of work, instructive and amusing books 



