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To give you an idea of the distance, I have been over (not including the sea voyage from Halifax)--five thousand miles. -- Part of the country is almost unexplored, and I had to get along, in consequence of the Ohio river being shallow, sometimes in a canoe, canal boat, waggon or anything I could get hold of. -- Capt. Cathcart with whom poor George was travelling, had gone on from St Louis, leaving him by poor Georges express desire, as he was getting quite well from an attack of dysentery, and was to have followed as soon as he got better. -- The day after Cathcart left poor George had a relapse, and was so ill that the doctors, two of whom attended him, decided to remove him to the hospital, where he would be under the care of the sisters of charity. -- He kept getting