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finding any clothes hanging out. I started back to my boat when I was just opposite the log house the dogs for the first time began to bark and I heard someone coming to the door but as I supposed it would be a darkey. I stood near the door, it opened and there I found myself confronted by a white man at once my mind was made up to do all the talking myself and thus confound him. I"I lost my way I guess." "Where do you want to go?" " I? how far is it to Bainbridge?" "Eighteen miles. do you want to go there." "Yes, Sir?" "Don't you know the road?" "No Sir I have never been down on this side of the river and I have lost my way?" "Well the road is about three quarters of a mile out in this way?" "Thank you Sir, good night." I left him before he could have time to resolve on any course to pursue moving a short distance in the direction he had indicated. I flanked round to my boat and was soon traveling down the river. On the 13th it rained and strange to say this day I stopped near an old