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always in good spirits. John Terry proved to be a 

 most excellent man with stock on board ship. We 

 were gone about three months on this trip. 



My second trip was in 1889. I was accompanied 

 by Mr. Walter Murray, of Mt. Juliet, Tenn. We left 

 Nashville in March, going direct to New York. There 

 we were met by Dr. B. S. Plumlee, who made the 

 entire trip with us. This time we sailed on the 

 Etruria, a handsome vessel of the Cunard line. She 

 has made quite a reputation for speed. The Etruria 

 is a twin ship to the Umbria. We landed at Liverpool 

 and went practically over the same territory as stated 

 in former trip. After buying some forty head we 

 heard of some jacks seventy miles away up in the 

 mountain where it was much colder and very deep 

 snow. Dr. Plumlee was complaining of being unwell, 

 so Mr. Murray and I made the trip, buying nine 

 head of good stock. In the meantime Dr. Plumlee 

 bought a few individual animals. Having purchased 

 in all fifty-six head, Mr. Murray returned to our 

 former field of business to assist in collecting, and 

 paying for that which we had already purchased and I 

 took the nine head to Toulouse, where we met and 

 reshipped to Bordeaux, our sailing point. We were 

 quite unfortunate this trip, losing twelve head in the 

 Atlantic and eight head from New York to Nashville, 

 twenty head in all. This time we shipped on second 

 deck and did not have sufficient ventilation, which 

 produced pneumonia. We used my former inter- 

 preter, Mr. P. Carles, and our genial commissioner, 

 Mr. Ribo Saster. Had our train been on time we 

 would have reached Johnstown at ten a.m., just in 

 time for the great flood, but fortunately for us our 



