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I just touch the bite with ammonia, and it gives me no pain, 
and never swells. The black flies do not trouble you after 
dark, and that’s a great comfort.” 
I saw a few signs of defaced beauty, but kept mum. In 
fact, on looking upon those two ladies, I felt proud of such 
specimens. One of them had visited most of the courts of 
Europe, and the other had accompanied her triumphant hus- 
band throughout our recent great war. We therefore num- 
bered six in the party, two ladies and four gentlemen; and I 
am bound to acknowledge that, throughout our month of 
camp life, hundreds of miles from a post-oftice, the ladies ex- 
emplified the highest degree of spirit and pleasure, with the 
least appearance of annoyance at any discomfort ; and these 
were the two first white ladies that ever ascended the great 
St. John River. 
Having examined the surroundings, and admired the great 
contrasts of the heavens with the mountains, and the wide, 
