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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860
Year: 1860 (1860s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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r, through the lake district ofMiddle Minnesota to the head of navigation onRed River. Such articles as were needed hadbeen added to our outfit, including a boat to crossstreams in, which served for a Avagon box on dryland. The second day out all our horses andmules ran away before breakfast. Half the campscoured the country in every direction in search forthe runaways. They were caught four miles away,making steady tracks for St. Cloud and its pos-sible oats, led on in their desertion by two of thehandsomest, smallest, and meekest-looking mulesin the train. The road rewarded them with re-tributive justice that day. The sloughs were in-numerable, and indeed innumerable they con-tinued to be for weeks and weeks, only aj)proach-ing the limits of mathematical calculation as weneared Pembina. This may seem strange whenit is considered that we crossed the divide be-tween the tributaries of the Minnesota and Mis-sissippi; but, as Joseph said, with a general 298 HARPERS NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
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GETTING OUT OF A SLOUGH. convexity of outline there was great concavityof detail. The convex divide, like a roundedcheek, had a small-pox of lakes, bogs, ponds,sloughs, and morasses. To give in detail the particulars of this partof our experience would be cruel to writer andreader, though it might gain the former a seatin the Chinese Paradise of Fuh, where the purg-atorial price of admission is to wade for sevenyears in mud up to the chin. So let me givethe spirit of it all, in a lump. The only external indication of some kindsof sloughs is a ranker growth of grass, perhapsof a different color, in the low ground betweentwo hills of a rolling prairie. Again, on a levelprairie, where the road seems the same as thatyou have been traveling dry shod, your horseshoofs splash in wet grass. This goes on, worseand worse, till you get nervous and begin to drawup your heels out of the water ; and so, perhaps,for a mile, whether in the water or out of it youcan not tell, horses up to their bellie

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