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making terrible havoc there, among the men principally engaged 
on the government works. They are said to have exposed them¬ 
selves most wilfully, by drinking of poor water, when at a little 
distance the best was to be had. Major Ogden, a most estimable 
man, has fallen a victin to the dread disease, also some families 
of the officers. This afternoon I have been off upon the prairie 
alone. Was two miles from home at sun-down, and, before I reached 
it, could not see the path for the darkness, but trusted to “ Old 
Gray.” The sick man is so far recovered as to leave. 
