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arriyed. He had left so many of his escort here and there 

 along the road, that no additional troops could be spared for 

 lis ; and our expedition might haA^e ignoniiniously returned 



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at its outsetj had not Colonel Greenwood most liberally 

 offered to escort us with his surveying party and his coloured 

 troops — making, in all^ nearly fifty additional men — across 

 the remainder of the country considered unsafe. 



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