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manner I sat for about a quarter of an hour, until 

 a profuse perspiration resulted from this primitive 

 kind of vapour bath, which had certainly one 

 good effect, that of producing at night a long- 

 continued sleep. 



August 3d. — As I felt a good deal better this 

 morning, I took a walk as far as the market-place, 

 to see the houses of the new come Hurrahgee 

 people. A great many turned out for my inspec- 

 tion, to gratify themselves by looking at me ; 

 which party was most entertained, I or them, at 

 the mutual novelty of our appearance, I do not 

 know, but after exchanging salutations with an old 

 man belonging to them, I returned home with 

 Walderheros. 



Finding that I was still laying myself under great 

 obligations to Miriam, who came for a few hours 

 every day to grind flour and bake bread, I deter- 

 mined that Walderheros should send for his wife 

 to come and take up her abode with him as house- 

 keeper. Goodaloo was accordingly sent on this 

 errand, and before night they returned together. 

 As a kind of offering upon the occasion she 

 brought, hanging in her tobe upon her back, a 

 large pumpkin. She was a good-looking girl of 

 about seventeen or eighteen years of age, and had 

 been married to Walderheros for five years. Her 

 father was one of the King's watchmen, holding a 

 farm for that service, which required his absence 



