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that these would hatch 3,000,000 of birds as there were nearly always four and not infrequently five to each nest. The curlew is a beautiful bird of snowy white except the tip of its wings which are of a deep blue. About midnight we came into Appalachicola about sundown we had stopped at the house of an old woodsman and as he was going to Appalachicola we remained with him until about 10 o'clock and I took passage in his canoe and coming into town I lost sight of my friends the deserters and thus lost some of my relics and was also unable to return to them the poor? pittance of thanks which was all I had to bestow in return for the many kindnesses which they had shown to me. I was directed to Dr. Chapman and accordingly proceeded to his house and called him up. I told him I was escaped from the enemy and