the longer I have been among that people, the
more near and united they have felt to me;
and now on parting, they feel like brethren, with
whom I had been intimately acquainted, and for
whose welfare I feel ardent wishes

About 8 o'clock we left Buffalo

. Much of
this days ride was through a country very thinly
timbered, grown over with plenty of pretty good
grass, so that I thought thousands of cattle
might have been fattened upon it, if were not
for a species of large flies and mosquitoes.
We stopped twice to let our horses eat grass:
but they were so worried with these insects, that
they did little but run about, untill we got brush
es and kept them off. If we stopped our horses
one minute in the woods, in some places, the
mosquitoes would be on them in such numbers
as almost to hide their color. Joshua Sharpless,
says, I covered my head, neck, and the most of
my face with my silk handkerchief, wrapped
a pocket handkerchief round one of my hands,
and with all the defence I could make, was much
bitten and swolen with them. When night
came on we got no relief. We took up our quarters
about sunset, beside a small stream of good water
under the bough of an oak, and kindled fires in
diferent places around us, in order to smoke them
off: but with all, we were worried that the whole night through,