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57 after rambling around, and dancing for a while we set our dinner table with all the niceties that we had brought and were comfortable enjoying the meal; when we had nearly got through eating, suddenly as if by magic a terrible black cloud overspread the heavens and, this was a sufficient warning; all hastily finished, and by the time the attendants had taken their meals, and the dishes and other articles packed away, the rain came down in very large drops, and such a scrambling into the vehicles is very seldom seen. Many had come on horse-back, but all who could crowd under a cover did so; and the unlucky individual who was compelled to proceed home as an equestrian got a very severe drenching from a very heavy thunder-shower, and by the time we reached the Fort the water was running in streams. My carriage was driven up to the door of my room; but on opening the door, a very wet sight presented itself: the water which had flowed in under both the back and front door; had met in the middle of the room, and seemed to have made a compact, for a general inundation; at least it was so high, that my husband had to take me in his arms; carry me across the room, and put me on a high place to prevent me from being swamped: