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<html>provisions (wet and spoiled), ragged cloth-
ing, (all of the meanest description, generally
butternut jeans and “nigger-cloth”) were
just about paving some parts of the road,
and horses, dead, dying, lame, serviceable,
and unserviceable, were in no way scarce.
The wagons were in great part planta-
tion wagons, of as many varieties as the
“bastes” that old Noah accommodated,
but some appeared to be regulation wagons,
build on the plan of the old Conestoga,
“only more so,” by a ‘feet” or two.
[Sketch of Wagon] [Sketch of horse]
There, that’s a faint imitation of
their grotesque appearance. They looked
like a cross between the Dunstable
bonnet and the Spanish five-decker
of Columbus’s time. The second view is an
equally faint attempt at one of the crit-
ters. It is a detached view, but the
hind-quarters (and fore ones too) of the
original were a litter more “detached,”
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