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little travelled some very bad mud holes for some time nothing was to be seen but the extensive level prairie and the heavens the earth and sky seemed to meet not a brush tree or stone or stump appeared in sight had I not felt the motions of the waggon the darkness of the night might have led me to believe that I was sailing on the ocean I shift about as comfortable in the waggon as I could anywhere I had a good bed some of own people had to go forward and pick out the way. We expect to stay here until night and then start again we have some more roads before us to travel to night-time and holes are deeper I learned it the nights are dark it makes it very hard for us the ? are very heavy here and we are much exposed to the night with the fever and again with the chill fever is prevalent there the people tells us we cannot escape we will surely have it. Night has come and our people have viewed the Hickory Grove which is the name of the grove where we stopped this morning for rest and are very much pleased with it they have concluded to buy it they start tomorrow morning for the land office. I should not like to settle here there is no nearer neighbors than six miles and never