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Show BELIEVE THE GUAED. 107 mines not to budge a step, it requires a man with an extraordinary stock of patience to wait upon his mule-ship's leisure. The idea frequently suggested itself, that I should change my professional card-plate, and add instead, my name with " M. D." attached, as significant of my new office. DLNNEE ON POECUPINE. A large porcupine was killed and brought into camp to-day by our Delawares, who placed it on a large fire burning off its quills, leaving a thick hard skin, very like that of a hog. The meat was white, but very fat, it looked very much like pork. My stomach revolted at it, and I sat hungry around our meUs, looking at my comrades enjoying it. The animal weighed about thirty pounds. EELLEVE THE 'GUAED. I was awakened one night by a rude push from the officer of the guard, who was a huge " Delaware." " Carvalho, go watch horse." " Twelve o'clock;" I put my head out of my buffalo robe, and received a pile of fresh snow upon me. I had laid myself down on a snowbank, before a scanty fire of artemisia. I had my clothes on, and wrapped in my buffalo robe, I had sought a few hours sleep until my turn to guard arrived. I came into camp exhausted, from a ten mile travel on foot, over an irregular and broken road. I had stopped to make daguerreotypes; in consequence, I was detained, and did not get to camp until near eight iVolnflr. |