Chap. XIX. PROSPECTS OF THE COLONY. 531 
that my intention in every part of it has been to 
relate truly and exactly the scenes which I saw, and 
the things which were of paramount interest to me 
at the time. So earnest has been this intention, that 
I have often dwelt over-minutely on trivial details, 
and have fallen almost unawares into the language, 
while I acquired the unavoidable spirit, of a partisan. 
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