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they were flogging him to make him confess. I am glad that I have fixed to see the day when the tyrant Wurtz has paid the extreme penalty of his crimes. I am not an advocate of capital punishment but sincerity demands that I shall say I can hear the death of such men as Wurtz with Christian resignation. When on the 1st of November we arrived in unclear the prospect was indeed gloomy. We were here placed in another stockade without a stick of wood. We suffered intensely. A rain set in and lasted until the 4th when the weather became clear and cold. On the fourth we had got arranged and fire of us began and dug a hole, just big enough for us all to be in. We had two blankets or rather thin worn and miserable pieces of things. Every rag we could collect we used to patch them making thread from a small piece of canvas which one of the boys had. Saturday November 5th Chances for life seem slim enough. But the rebels now lean to allow us to go out for wood. And as those