The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-29 00:00:00

LONDON, MOiNDAY EVENING, MARCH 29, 1858.

THE WAR IN INDIA.

58 of which, with their mahouts, feeders, and at
tendants, were installed near the road.

FEB. 5.

(rstom THE TIMES' SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.)
I was compelled to leave my last letter* un-
fin'shed in order that I might avail myself of the
opportunity of joining the force in the field at
Cawnpore, and oa the morning of the 4th of Feb-
ruary I crossed the dirty Ganges with infinite satis-
faction and left Calcutta behind me. Jostling
through the swarming crowd of Hindoes, Mussul-
mans, and Coolies who filled-the railway station, I
once more enjoyed that mild personal triumph
which one feels in establishing one's-self in the pet
conker of a railway carriage, and in a few minutes
was traversing the flat and uninteresting district
which lies on the right bank of the Gauges. It is
too much, perhaps, to say that the district is quite
uninteresting to a stranger. The green rice fields,
the mud built villaees, the novel birds, the tro-
pical trees and vegetation, and, above all, the
population, for some time attract and engage the
attention ; but very soon the monotony of the
scene—each grove so like its brother, and each
village the model of all—that curiosity is satiated,
and is succeeded by something stronger than indif-
ference. Far as the eye can reach on either side
there are the same small patches of rich green amid
larger expsnses of baked earth or banged-up water,
trigged by little groves of dates, of cocoa, of palm,
or by clumps of plantains. Beneath every thicker
tope or clump of trees are the wretched looking
cottages of mud, bamboo, and thatch in
which the natives live. Tee snipe springs
skirling from 'he ra trshes which fringe the railway
hanks, and along the margins of the tanks staik
snow-whi e egrets with long-crests ; the tamer
paddy biid, wi looks like a bittern, may he seen
investigating the contents of the worth-heaps in
the t ewly-dried land ; snakes of various kinds, a
large blue jay of beautiful plutmnage, and the
saucy king crow, sit unmovingly ou the telegraph
wires—th white buzz tid, tie common home kite,
and mul-itudes of vul Ines hover over-head. A ,
whirling cloud of flying foxes d sturbed from their
morn ng sleep wheel over the thick tope from which
they have been roused by some native in search of
a cocoanut ; and the pretty green flycatcher darts
from btancli to btancli incessantly. The hoopal,
like our own rare specimens, a large blade and
white Siegtisher, poised over a tank like a hawk on
the sw, op ; innumerable claw-like rooks frequent
the sides of the rail, and the long-winged tern
an I the sandeiling are tiusy at wot k by the
flooded fields. But at• this season of the year
the rice crops are scanty and the tanks are
not half full. The country has been baked by the
arm, and with the exception of such patches as
I have mentioned the whole surface of Bengal is
like nothing so much as a vast brickfield. There
are bricks by the million on all sides, and people
busy making them. There are bricks in heaps,
in mounds, in pile.,' in blocks, all drying in the
sun ; tlitre is the hard bare earth one vast brick
in itself Water or mould a piece of it, and it be-
comes a brick in a few hours. And the people naked
and biked too—it seems as if not much were re-
quired to, change them to their original element.
The men square-shouldered, flat and thin-chested,
hollow-thighed, big-kneed large-footed, lank-heeled,
are wadieg about in the tanks, or making bricks,
or carrying small loads, or engaged in some very
obscure agricultural operation, or doing nothing
with equal indifference. They have no clothing but
a small piece of cotton cloth, frequently very dirty,
wrapped round their hips, and the end brought
between their legs. Some wear a turban of the
same material ; some their natural coarse black
hair • some a long tuft of the same substance, de-
pending from the back of the head ; others have
the scalp half shaved, others again Lave the head
shaven clean, so that it almost makes one shudder
o see their shining black bald pates glistening in
the broiling, sun. Some are blaCker than the
darkest Ethiop, others are coloured like the tawny
Moor. The, eis one who is busy engaged in pur-
suing small deer amid the folds of his scanty pan-
tal.ons—he has three white stripes over his nose,
and a sort of 'necklace which comes round under
the shoulder, and a stupid and ugly look in his dull,
dark eyes; he is, I am told, a holy Brahmin.
Another is washing his clothes—and he has no
change of linen—ire the tank close by. Little chil-
dree, boys and girls, quite naked up to the age of
six or seven, hurrah and toss up their hands after
the fashion of our own juvenile population in greet-
ing a passing train. The womeii, though more
decently clad, seem to be more+ wild and a.vage
than the men. Their breasts and heads, and the
body dove to the knee, is covered by a thin fold
of calico, hut they have huge brass rings in their
noses, sainirig ings of metal from the wrist to the
elhaw, and thick hoops of the s me material round
their aucles. Their highly polished, glittering
little babies rile straddle-legged on their mothers'
hips as the latter totter about with heavily-laden
baskets on their he a-a, doing the work of men, or
engage in the very common process of kneading
dung gathered in the fields into cakes, to be dried
and used as fuel. It is said that on fete days these
wretceed-looking people come out in great finery.
I can only regr, t that they have not more of those
fetes—as yet I have seen none. Through
such scenes one weirls for miles past dirty
li tie temples of foul and loathsome deities, till
we come to Burtiwan. Here we get out to look at
the prison, and at the Rajah of Pitch te, who is con-
fined here on suspicion of treason. It was
rainoui ed that his people were coming to rescue
him, and Dr. Mouar, Inspector of Prisons, who was
in the tour), wit! us, was coming to ascertain the
truth of the report, in order that be might, be re- ,
moved to Calcutta if the magistrates found it was I
well founded. The gaol consists of several brick
buildings of only one story in height, and sur-
rounded by a high wall ; the doors are strong and
clamped with non—the gaolers armed with cut-
lasses. On entering the prison we saw a number of
men with leg-irons engaged in various ways in the
open yard, making coarse paper, grinding grain,
pounding bricks—au evil-faced race. We passed
into ono of the rooms, and at once found ourselves
among a number of brass pots, earthen pots, nar-
ghile b owls, and silver vessels, which lay on the
floor ; inside, a young man about 30 years of age,
with coarse sensual features, seated on the ground,
was eating rice with his fingers out of a large dish.
In front of him, at some distance, with folded arms,
stood three domestics in an attitude of profound
attention. The Rajah—for it was he—looked up
angrily and demanded who we were ; nor did lie
seem better pleased when Dr. Mouat told him his
business ; but finding his highness so engaged, we
at once left his presence. I was somewhat relieved
from any feeling of sympathy when I was in-
formed that the gentleman hears a very bad cha-
racter in every way, and that he has long been
" looked for" by the authorities. Thence we
went to the women's ward, a small building, con-
sisting of two rooms, one opening into the other,
with a little yard in front. Some 12 or 13 women
of various ages were employed here pretty much as
the men. Of these not less than eight were impri-
soned for murder, mostly of the children of others
whom they had been engaged to destroy, and it
was with some surprise I he ird that these har-
dened criminals were confined in the same room
with women who were undergoing punishment for
very trifling offences.
Tile reform so much needed in the prison of
Burdwan in that respect will, it is said, be soon in-
troduced. We arrived at Raneegunge, 120 miles
from Calcutta, the point to which the railway has
been carried, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, having
been about six hours on the road. All the daks, or
post carriages, had been taken by the military au-
thorities, and there was nothing for it but to remain
at the bungalow, which has spine pretensions to he
considered as an hotel, till the afternoon of the next
day, when, thanks to the kindness of the officers in
charge and of the authorities, I was enaele to pro-
ceed on my way tot Benares. At Raneegunge com-
mences the system. of conveyance for which the In-
dian Government deserve very great credit, and by
which a e were enabled to concentrate cur troops
with certainty and comfort. The men were sent up
doily in detachments of 150 or 200 by rail to Ra-
neegunge. There closed carriages drawn by oxen
were provided f r them, into which theywere trans-
ferred and sent up country at the rate of 35 miles
a-day. All along the roid bungalows were prepared,
where the d.etac omelets received their meals with
the norm'', corn fort, and where they could rest if
neeessary during • the day. These ar angements never
failed on any nO casion. The accommodation sheds
are clean and alley, and the cooking was excellent,
so that the meta, many of whom had served in the
Crimean war, arere loud in their expressions of prase.
At present th a stream of troops has ceased, but I
wits
by
Sri aeye-witness of the excellent preparations
wadea
()apt tain Sadler and by the commissariat
officers for tilt •) reception of part of her Majesty's
35th Foot, wl rich arrived there by rail the day after
I came. Brigsslier Horaford is stationed in command,
and the officers Yoave a small mess, the hospitality
of which I have to acknowledge. The only thing
worth seeing at 1 Zaneegunge was a camp of elephants,

Gharry daks all ready at 4 p.m. Now, gharry
daks convey no intelligible idea to the English.
The words being translated, mean post carriages.
• gharry is an oblong box provided with doors at
each side, with slides and small Venetian blinds to
keep off the sun, mounted on springs and four
wheels, and drawn by one horse. Load for each
gharry, 2001 b. of luggage ; driver with "Mail stop
guard" on the brass plate of his belt, nothing else
English about him ; a turban on his head, quilted
cotton tunic, with sash round his waist, tight pan-
taloons of striped -yellow cotton ; bare feet, slip-
pers, and French bugle. The party started in four
daks (pronounced dawks)—one with Major-General
Sir R. Garrett en route to his command at Um-
balla ; another with his Aide-de-Camp, Major
DAlas, and an officer of the Rifle Brigade ; and the
other two charged with officets and self. Go along
at a good pace over excellent road, about seven
miles an hour ; change horses every five miles.

FEB. 6.

Amid a most migratory population, all on the
tramp, trains of oxen, bamboo-built carts, buffa-
loes, camels, all going, towards Calcutta ' • road very
good, through dead-flat country, which looks like
the tied of some dried-up sea ; no hedges, no trees,
but many bleached bones of all kinds ; inter alia,
one human skull ; fields near at hand covered with
broken cooking vessels and pots of brown earthen-
ware ; grass all burnt, earth baked and harl and
full of fissures ; villages of mud very squalid ; on
a vast plain in front of me a ridge of conical hills
covered with votdure. At 12 30 arrived at Ni-
meaghaut, where there was a bungalow, a building
of one story, of brick with tiled roof, portico in
front, two rooms for reception of dak travellers,
an., out-offices. Officers of oommisssriat and
another in charge of convoy :arc stationed there,
and kindly share rati,:ns. r.

FEB. 'T.

At Shergotty about 10 a.m., a large straggling
market place. Rehels burnt indigo planters pro-
perty near this some months a. o. Country as we
proceed consists of vast plains imbedded in frames
~f hills, and seamed with watercourses ; not one-
eighth is bearing cr, ps, or traces of them, accord-
ing to appearances, which, most likely, are deceit-
ful. See two wolves in a field and plenty of jackals
in the evening.

FEB. 8.

Stopped at Nohutpore, where the bungalow had
been sacked by the Dinapore mivineers—or as the
native called them, " the Sepoys." The river is
here spanned by a very fine and handsome stone
bridge of unusual grace. Many detachments of our
soldiers have stopped here and the walls are covered
with their writings—one said, " Beware t there are
quicksands in the river, one of our men just drowned
there !" Two graves in the yard contain the remains
of J. Coutts, her M.jes y's 78th Regiment, and of
J. S+alworth, h r Majesty's 78th Regiment. The
country beyond this station becomes much richer
and be ter cultivated—a Sea of young corn and
pulse, or grain. We are approaching Benares, and
shrines are frequent by the roadsides, which are
fringed with fine trees, mangoes, palms, the toddy
tree, and others unknown to me even by name.
i
About 1.30 p.m. we come n sight of Benares, a
long, straggling, Turkish-looking town on the left
bank of the Ganges, which is here high and pre-
cip;tous. The river, which is filthy as usual, is
crossed by a new bridge of boats. The water is very
low. Streams of oxen and carts laden with cotton
aro passing across, but just as we arrive the bridge
is opened to let boats pass, and our gharris are
detained an hour. Nothing very observable
of the city from the bridge, except a mosque,
with two fine, delicate minarets, about half a
mile up the river. The passage and the bridge
are under the fire of a very powerful and
extensive work completed since last June by Lieut.
Patrick Stewart, Bengal Engineers, and others, at
the Raj Ghaut. This work dominates the river and
overawes the dirty and rebellious town. The houses
seem to be composed of the ruins of old houses
stuck together with dried mud. The walls are
covered here and there with frescoes of soldiers,
elephant, and kings, which put one much in mind
of the Nineveh-rooms in the British Museum.
FEB. 9.

Left Benares at 'T a.m. by dak as before. The
country outside is one great sea of corn. The road-
side thronged with people, nearly all with theirfaces
towards Benares. Many tanks by the roadside and
small shrines and temples—some flindoo—with
images of apes and animals of difficult anatomy stuck
up for worahip. The pf ople nearly all carry long
and stout sticks of bamboo, and walk at a great
pace. Some of them carry bamboos balanced hori-
zontally on their shoulders, their brass pots at one
end and a handle at the other. Family groups are
frequent—an old man, thin and feeble, yet walking
wonderfully well ; a young man, stout and well-
proportioned but for his hollowed thighs; a woman,
with a child on her hip, and a 13,.1 and a girl of six
or seven years old. As far as the eye can reach on
all sides there is a vast plain, covered with waving
green, about two feet high, dotted with rich topes
of trees, dry rice grounds, patches of sugar-cane,
and popies. All along the road are half-ruined
houses at the distance of 300 or 400 yards apart, the
high mud walls and enclosures offering strong posts
for defence, the high thick mounds of earth round
the tanks near the road being available for a simi-
lar purp,,se and in the hands of a resolute enemy
most difficult to force. Travelled all day—the road
thronged and almost impassable on account of the
immense train of bullock hackeries laden with cot-
ton. It was night before we reached the bank of the
Ganges, opposite to Allahabad. The watch-fires
by the river's banks gave one the idea of a great
camp—passed the
GA, g s by a broad bridge of
boats, and drove to the dak bungalow, which was
full ; thence out to a common, where some tents
were pitched, we were told, for offict-rs, but they
•
were empty, and so we went to another small camp
close at hand, where an enterprising individual had
established a mess tent, and some small tents to
sleep in around, and
they© we reposed for the
ni.:4llt, though the jackals were numerous and noisy.
It was very cold during the night in my tent, and
I awoke shivering—our party consisting of Major-
General Sir R. Garrett, Major Dallas, his Aide-de-
Camp, a Rifle brigade officer, Mr. Sladen, Madras
Fusileers, and a medical officer.

Fzs. 10.

Awoke by the familiar strains of the reveilles of
our light infantry bugles and by great cold. By
gray light saw the Mh Light Infantry, Lord Mark
Kerr's regiment, turning out. They form the out-
lying, garrison of Allahabad, being encamped on
the plains between the fort and the town. After
breakfast drove over to the Fort, which is a large
quadrangular work, situate at the junction of the
Jumna with the Ganges, which is nearly at right
angles. The two river faces parallel to the sides of
these angles consist of high ornamented stone walls
—the work, it is sail, of Akhbar, the other two
sides towards the Doab having been added by our-
selves. It is a regular work, of considerable
strength, and may be estimated as a first-class for-
tress. Few guns are mounted, but there is a large
arsenal inside, a laboratory, &c. In the great
square inside is pitched the camp of the Governor-
General of India. His Excellency lives iu an ordi-
nary general's tent, and all the principal officers
attached to the machinery of State which he has
carried with him are under canvas. As an evidence
of the state of the country, and of the inadequacy
of the military means at the disposal of Government
to do all that is desirable, I may mention that the very
day before we arrived the report of a cannonade was
heard in the Governor's camp about noon, and soon
after intelligence arrived that a chief at the other
side of the Ganges, near Sura,m, had proclaimed
his independence, and ordered a salvo to be fired by
his guns in honour of his rajah. The Governor-
General has not a man to send to chastise this in-
solence, nor can he give any active support to Mr.
Mayne, who is struggling to maintain the civil au-
thority at Suraon.

* Loat in Avg.

is encamped some artillery on the march under Col.
David Wood, and the place contains large sheds
for soldiers en route.
CAWNPORt, FEB. 12.
The morning was just dawning, sharp and cold
and gray as we approached Cawnpore. 110 ,
in vain for any evidence that we were on thel of
to &great city, though I could see many trao p,
the existence of a large camp. It was a,
melancholy interest that I gazed with strai ri
eyes at each site, known hitherto only by name, as
one after another they were pointed out by my com-
panion. They were all masses of ruins. " Sea
that long white building all riddled with cannon
shot, and battered on every side, with the little
broken parapet of earth before it ; that is Wheeler's
intrenchment." Strange as it may appear, from
the distance at which we were the whole range of
these ill-fated buildings looked exactly like the 1
barracks, or what we called the" White Buildings" 1
of Sebastopol after the siege. The spot was ill-
chosen for defence—a long quadrangular block of
houses on a level plain, without cover, and open to
fire from numerous houses all around it. Had the
magazine been selected the position would have
been more defensible, and the enemy would have
been deprived of the guns which they used with
fatal effect. Bui; Sir Hugh Wheeler, like most old
Indians, despised the enemy who appeared before
him, or at all events he disdained abandoning the
station as if from fear of anything they could do,
and prepared to defend a position which he scarcely
thought they would assail. We all know the sad
result, which was brought home to us with re-
newed force when we filled the road from the house
to the river with an imaginary procession of men,
women, and children marching down to the boats,
already covered by the ambushed guns of their
cowardly and ferocious enemy. Our road .lay
through a flat, baked, burnt-up country studded
with trees. On our left lay the whitewashed
buildings which Wheeler occupied. Before us, on
the right as upon the left, we saw.after a few
minutes' drive a scene of tremendous desolation—
house after house roofless, windowless, shattered
and rent in all directions, the porticoes and veran-
dahs lying in fragments before them in what once
were their peculiar gardens-I.eng rangss of barracks,
storehouses, large buugal ,we broken up piecemeal,
and covering the site with heaps of broken brick,
earth, and dirty rubbish—church pierced by shot,
and open to every sun ray, the huge rafters alone
standing—Government and military Offices mere
mounds of disintegrated masonry and the unsightly
mud walls of uativeresidences—the stumps of trees,
the withered branches of which were lying in every
enclosure. Again I was reminded of the lost
mistress of the Euxine, and, failing to find a
parallel there for all this destruction, endeavoured
to recall the descriptions by ancient writers of
cities devastated by barbaric conquerors.
Cawnpore, however, was only an extensive col-
lection of detached bungalows and offices spread
over an immense space of ground, and here and
there concentrated into piles of barracks, magazines,
and offices. The utter ugliness of brick when de-
prived of its greatcoat of stucco, and the greater
ugliness of mud walls in decay are there pi ilessly
exposed by the hand of the marauder and by the
cannot, shot. But fur the sad interest attached to
these hideous mounds, which forcibly remind one
of the unhoarded spaces in London where improve-
ment commissioners are at work, labelled "Rubbish
may be shot here," Cawnpore would be a most
vulgar, commonplace, aggregate of uninhabitable
edifices. We drive on a little further and on our
right, amid many broken bungalows, there is
visible an enclosure with broken walls and shattered
gate posts, in the centre of which is a heap of brick,
mud, and white plaster about two or three feet
high, scattered over 15 or 20 square yards of ground.
Close to this heap there are some leafless trees,
and on the topmast branch of one of these, just
over the centre of the mound, with its foul plumage
lighted up by the rays of the rising sun, sits a
horrid vulture. A few yards beyond this mats of
the ruins of what had once been a house there rose
a ramp or sloping mound of earth from the level of
the ground to the edge of a circular brick well, the
top of which was covered in, and close by the well
stood a monumental cross. It was scarcely neces-
sary for my companion to say, "There is the house
and just beyond it is the well." We passed on by
the blackened wall of au absurdly fine masonic
lodge, and by the ruins of a very spacious
building called the Assembly-rooms, just op-
posite the scene of the butchery ; by a house
close to it, in which the Nana lived after
the olcupation of the place by the Etepoys •' and
then though the remains of mud houses and bun-
galows, till we reached the ruins .of the Cawn-
pore hotel. Everything around us was dilapi-
dated—not a pane of glass in the broken window,
the doors and ceilinizs broken, and here and there
the holes made by cannon shot; but we were glad
to find that some of the rooms were unoccupied,
and that such things as breakfast and dinner were
not unknown. Tie scene from the hotel—you
must dismiss from your mind all associations con-
nected with the use of the word in Europe, so far
as the outward aspect of the place is concerned—
was curious, Ruins—ruins, nothing but ruins,
amid which troops of vultures were gorging them-
selves, mingled with buzzards, kite', "adjutants,"
adjutants,"
and carrion crows ; a few tents pitched inside the
compound by travellers en route, vast processions
of carts drawn by oxen, and files of elephants and
camels passing along the dusty plains which were
swept continually by blasts that whirled before
them clouds of fine earth, brickdust, and the pow-
dered sus face of the compounds. The first thing
that struck me was the enormous number of
natives in our service and the prodigious number
of anima's in attendance on such a small fragment
of our forts. There were, indeed, no less than
55,000 or 60,000 camp followers, servants, bullock-
drivers, elephant-keepers, grass-cutters, syces, and
c amel men attached to this force ; and as yet what
I have seen glee s me not the faintest idea of the
impedimenta, animate and inanimate, of an Indian
army. Before breakfast we walked over to inspect
the site of the horrid butchery which has ren-
dered the sepoy mutiny infamous for over. The
house in which it took place is now in ruins ; it
was pulled down to clear the grounds for the guns
of the tete de posit across the Ganges, and the
very outline of the walls is scarcely traceable. It
was originally built for and used as a zenana,
an enclosed residence, with a court-yard in the
centre, in which the stump of a tree *as still stand-
ing ; and off this open space were the rooms in
which the massacre took place. The plaster of the
walls was still lying about in patches, but I could
not detect any trace of blood. Bits of cloth and
of wonsen's dresses were still visible arnid.the rub.
bish ; but there were none of the more painful
tokens of the dreadful tragedy which had been
enacted where we stood. Thole is reason to be-
lieve that the writing on the plaster, the purport of
which . you know, did not exist when Havelock's
force entered the place. I have spoken with officers
who examined the walls, and every scratch in the
side of the rooms, ant'they declare that the appeal
to vengeance which is attributed to one of the
wretched victims was not to be seen immediately
after we returned to Cawnpore, and that it had
been traced on the wall by some person who visited
the place subsequently. I shall hereafter mention
a circumstance which favours that supposition. As
there was nothing left of the house but a heap of
broken bricks and plaster and some few stumps of
'nick pillars, we walked a few paces further to the
well in the rear of house, into which the bodies of
the-slaughtered women and children were thrown
by the murderers. It is now bricked over, and
there only remains a small circular ridge of brick
marking the wall of the well, which was not more
than nine or ten feet across. Beneath rest the
mangled remains of our countrywomen and their
little ones, and standing there we could well realise
the strength of that indignation which steels the
hearts of our soldiers against the enemy. Within
a few feet of "the well," surrounded by a small
wooden paling, there stands a stone cross on a fiat
slab, on two courses of masonry, the inscription on
FEB. 11. which tells its story ;--
Loft Allababad by train at 9 a.m. The bungalows
are all ruined here, and the place was only saved jesty's 32d Regiment, who were slaughtered near this
saved "In memory of the women and children cf her Ma-
by Neill's advance. The enemy destroyed the sta- spot on the 16 ti of July, A.D. 1857. This memorial
tion as far as they could by fire. As a mark of their
was erected by 20 men of the same regiment, who were
intelligence it maybe added that they fired musketry passing through Cawnpore, November 21st, 1857."
at the engines for some time at a distance as if they This inscription is engraved on the upright
were livisig bodies, and then advanced cautiously, part of the slab, which is in the form of a Maltese
and finding that the engines did not stir, began to
cross
belabour ahem with sticks, all the time calling them , within a circle of stone. In the quadrants
of this circle are inscribed, in red letters and in
names and abusing them. The rail passes through a
the old English charaoter
fia' country ;on our right is the route of Have , " I believe in the
lock's march ; the h.gh road along which he credi-
vancedad-
is visible above the low grounds, much of
which were then under water. Many villages have
been destroyed by us for aiding the enemy, or for
acts of hostility towards ourselves.
The rail carries us to Rhaga, 53 miles from Alla-
habad. We halt there, and at 3 o'clock push on by
horse dak to Futtehpore, where we make another
halt till 9 o'clock at night in order to avoid a
of
proachiog the camp Cawnpore by night. The
district around has been disaffected. The country and execution of this memorial were most Resurrection of the Dead." The conception
table. Iu the ranks of a marching regiment were
found "20 men" who, with good feeling and ex-
cellent taste, have, impromptu, raised a memorial
touch
utehiel Cawnpore
one
more massacredeeply ate and
h the
costly effort. We retraced our stepsthrohueg
camp
ruins, and after (breakfast proceeded. t
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gage
to it is marked
is populous, well cultivated, and fertile. It is adead gage animals,
laced far
which
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by trains of oxen and bag-
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ariy of
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