two small brass padlocks in one ear, another a
toy watch, Large, silver crosses are also worn
by them in the same manner. They are far
from being clean in their persons; Some of their shirts
do not appear to have ever been washed, and
about the shoulders they become black and
greesy; Their hair I observe to be their cloth
to wipe their fingers in while eating their bread
and oil. I thought the women were particularly
dirty perhaps from working harder than the
men, and being more among the grease.

For more than two weeks past, the weather
has been very dry, part of the time a cold
north wind, during which time we slept
in open cabins in our blankets, so that
we felt the want of more covering and a better
bed, there being frost-two mornings.

But for two or three days past the weather
has been warm, with a strong south wind.

During this dry weather the woods have been
much on fire, clouds of smoke frequently cover-
ing us so that the sun was obscured.

In the night one of the hills our rather moun-
tains, where a great quantity of dead timber had
taken fire, presented a very luminous and stri-
king appearance, as if the whole mountain was
on fire.

We have been under some exercise on