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Our course led us sometimes over the prairie, covered with low saw-palmetto and grass; sometimes over the pine-lands, by the side of ponds; occasionally along the edges of the belts of forest, chiefly composed of pines and cabbage-palms; and then near hummocks, which, as they were mostly impenetrable jungles, we carefully avoided, except when it became necessary to halt to obtain food for our party.
Even Calvin Blount, little used as he was to searching beneath the surface, knew that Eddring had ceased to give the railroad a thought. Blount looked at him keenly. In the northern pine-lands Father Messasebe murmured to himself, whispering among his rush-environed shores. "You have taken from me my own," murmured Father Messasebe. "You have swept away my children.
They now resigned themselves to another night in the drift. But at half after three occurred an incident that restored hope of a more speedy deliverance to a few of the captives. Through the low pine-lands to the right ran a road which was very thoroughly protected from drifting snow by the overhanging trees, and along this road there now appeared two pair of oxen.
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