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Our course lay about N.E. and I found on frequently consulting my compass that we were proceeding in as straight a line as it could be run by a surveyor. We saw plenty of deer tracks, and towards evening came across a colony of black squirrels, against which we waged a succesful war for ten minutes bagging sufficient for a meal -- with scarcely an interuption we continued our march til sundown, when name came to a halt, and laying down his rifle & pack, said, Maybe, we better camp here. Plenty water., pointing to the hole caused by a tree being blown down from its roots, which was filled with water -- the ... began preparing the camp, some cutting wood others making the fire, and we found plenty of