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their net and caught some fish.

By encamped the reader must not understand that they had any tent, or even the advantage of a tarpawlin or a sail to serve as a substitute: but encampment is the voyageur's term for their place of nightly rest whatever their accommodations may be. In the present instance a small clear space, on a rising ground, if possible, was found, a few branches of trees set up to windward, a fire was lit, their scanty meal taken, and each man lay down, wrapped up in his blanket, exposed to whatever weather the night produced. In that latitude, and in that season of the year, (October,) it is boisterous and severe heavy storms of rain, sleet, and hail, being followed by intense frosts and frequent snowstorms. A soldier's camp bed of straw under his sorry canvas-tent would have afforded a luxurious place of repose in comparison with their hard and unsheltered quarters. They were however running from slavery, and had, though a distant, yet a cheering, prospect of deliverance: motives to endure privations and miseries, untold, and unknown to all but those who have suffered them.

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