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at all disagreeable in their conversation or manners. They spoke good English, as all Americans do; & were unconstrained as all Americans are. I had noticed on the previous evening that they had remarkably good appetites, & at breakfast the next morning I " made a note" of what it took to satisfy the broadest-shouldered, & hungriest-looking of the party. First he called for beef steak: The lad in waiting brought him about a pound with a little dish of fried potatoes. This he soon disposed of. He then called for sausages. His next plat was ham & eggs. This was followed by a dish of slap-jacks, a kind of pancake eaten with butter & syrup. He finished with a dish of dried apples stewed.This was at half past six in the morning, at the same hour in the evening he wd have much the same kind of supper, & at noon much the same kind of dinner. But these men live out of unclear, & chiefly in the saddle, galloping over a plains four thousand feet above the level of the sea, with a very bracing & invigorating climate. The Lady of the house had been well brought up in New England, & unclear her manners were pleasing. She had no help & did all the cooking herself. They had an only child, then just five years, but who, for children are very forward here, one might have taken for seven. My chief amusement, while I was here, was catching

the pigs & dogs with an Indian lasso, made of buckskin.

At La Porte, a city of three or four houses, a Lady of unclear appearance got into the coach. The wife of the Colonel I have mentioned shook hands with