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Fort [[ ]] June 17th 1849 Dear Wife I have an opertunity of sending you a letter by paying 25cts if the fellow dont lie. I sent you one the 7th had you may not get it. We had got along as well as I expected to have turned our Waggon over once and broke [[ ]] [[ ]] I [[ ]] and my Rifle it was close by an Indian Traders and Black Smith shop, and it hapened one of our company was taken with the cholera at the same time, which caused us to camp, and dinning the afternoon we had every thing in repair, the man died the afternoon about 10 oclock the same night (last Thursday) we buried his at 8 oclock the next morning with as much decency as if he had been in the States, put a sand Stone up with his name Age [[ ]], I cut an '[[ ]]' and left him. he was a young man and left a Wife and one child in Indian Town. I'll? His name was Dunn, you will probbably hear exagerated accounts of cholera on our route, it is true is is sweeping off many but I think not any more than it would from the same number if they were at home. Bug M? Jesse, Norrace? Jackman and all of use are a little unwell occasionally but we are as prudent as we well can be, we are always up at 8 o clock in the morning and generly go to bed from 9 to 10 which leaves best 6 hours rest, and [[ ]] of then we had to stand our proportion of guard