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chocolate would keep us alive for five days atleast, an interval in which we should surelymeet with some Indian at the chase. Theirspirits revived at the suggestion, and the kettlebeing filled with two gallons of water, I putinto it one square of chocolate. The quantitywas scarcely sufficient to alter the color of thewater; but each of us drank half a gallon of thewarm liquor, by which we were much refreshed,and in its enjoyment felt no more the fatiguesof the day. In the morning we allowedourselves a similar repast, after finishing whichwe marched vigorously for six hours. But nowthe spirits of my companions again desertedthem and they declared that they neitherwould nor could proceed any farther. For myself,they advised me to leave them and accomplishthe journey as I could, but for themselvesthey said that they must die soon andmight as well die where they were as anywhereelse.While things were in this melancholy postureI filled the kettle and boiled another square ofchocolate. When prepared, I prevailed uponmy desponding companions to return to theirwarm beverage. On taking it they recoveredinconceivably, and after smoking a pipe consentedto go forward. While their stomachswere comforted by the warm water theywalked well; but as evening approached,fatigue overcame them and they relapsed intotheir former condition; and the chocolate now262