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island, we should get impatient as 

 the minutes passed, then hours, until 

 it was eleven o'clock, and no cart. I 

 would wait no longer, but hastened off 

 to learn why our equipage did not ap- 

 pear. I found the cart broken, and no 

 attempt made to repair it, or to inform 

 us of the mishap. I indignantly turned 

 away and went in search of another 

 cart, and was so far successful that I 

 was promised one as soon as a man 

 could go to the pasture and drive up 

 the mules. Again I returned to the 

 lodgings to sit and wait. In the vicin- 

 ity of two o'clock the cart arrived. It 

 was a two-wheeled affair, much like our 

 ordinary tip-cart, drawn by a mule har- 

 nessed with ropes into the thills, and a 

 little donkey tied on the left front cor- 

 ner to assist. The cart was too nar- 

 row to hold our one trunk crossways, 

 so it was pushed in at one side of the 



