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my route, they would quit me the next mofrl- 
ing; that the fear of being attacked by the 
Bofhmen was nothing in comparifon of fo 
horrid a death, which they confidered as ine- 
vitable ; and that, after all, it might be poffible 
for them to efcape the Bofhmen by travelling 
in the night. 
For once, their terror appeared to me to be 
w^ell founded. I was not free my felf from appre« 
henfion ; and I certainly had as little defire as 
they to expofe myfelf to a difeafe which in 
three days might involve us in general de-* 
ftrudion. 
I gave notice, therefore, that next morning 
at fun-rife I fliould decamp ; and, in the mean 
time, I took fuch precautions as I conceived to 
be neceifary for cur prefervation ; as porting 
ourfelves to the windward, kindling fires 
around us during the night, aud, above all, 
guarding our cattle, to prevent them from ap- 
proaching thofe of the horde, left they fhould 
catch the infedion. Next morning, having 
fent fome tobacco to the fick, giving orders to 
thofe who carried it, to depofit it at a diftance 
from the huts, and llridly charging them to 
accept of nothing in return, I made the fignal 
for 
