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Major Collinson, commanding the 4th Khedivial Brigade, left Atbara camp for the front with the 17th and 18th Battalions, or half his force, the 1st and 5th Battalions having preceded him some time previously. What a land the Soudan is!
A highly reliable correspondent sends the following from San Francisco, under date 5th July: The emigration for Fraser River has gone on for months with no signs of growing less. The best means of judging what grounds there are for the belief in the existence of gold in large quantities on its banks, is by letters received from persons who are engaged in mining.
I'm longing to see you, dear. "I've written to Celia, as you know, so she won't be too much astonished if I sneak into the gallery some night. "I've seen a lot of Zouaves, the 5th, 9th, 10th, and other regiments, but not the 3rd. What a mark they make of themselves in their scarlet and blue.
Colonel Burnham was soon after again paroled. On October 5th, we went to Columbia. Captains Morse, Burke, and Robinson escaped by jumping from the train, but were recaptured on the 11th, and rejoined us next day at Camp Sorghum. That we might get wood the commandant allowed a certain number to be paroled each day.
However, the enemy strongly entrenched in front, while Hill's troops, from some cause unexplainable, failed to take this precaution, and; had it not been for the timely arrival of Longstreet at a critical moment, might have been fatal to Lee's Army. On the morning of the 5th we had orders to march.
At six o'clock on the morning of the 5th, a great part of the military were embarked upon the raft, which was already covered with a large sheet of foam. The soldiers were expressly prohibited from taking their arms.
My mother's notes of every-day life proceed: January 2. This morning, one cloud in the east looked like a goldfish close to the horizon. I began to build a snow-house with the children, and shoveled paths. 5th. I walked out in the splendid sunset with the children, to meet papa. I told them, on the way, the story of Genevieve. 10th.
Pray God I may find it otherwise! Though, I hope, whatever the wicked gentleman may intend, that I shall be at last rid of her impertinent bold way of talk, when she seems to think, from his letter, that he means honourably. I am now come to MONDAY, the 5th Day of my Bondage and Misery.
Dined at home and to the office, where very late till I was ready to fall down asleep, and did several times nod in the middle of my letters. 5th. This day was kept publiquely by the King's command, as a fast day against the Dutch warr, and I betimes with Mr.
They got no redress. Saint-Pierre, backed by the Governor and the Intendant, remained master of the position. It was he who received Washington at Fort Le Boeuf in 1754. He was killed in 1755, at the battle of Lake George. Saint-Pierre set out for Manitoba on the 5th of June, 1750.
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