Well, failing anything better, we were much pleased with this arrangement, and never thought about isnot being a genuine. one ever crossed our minds, or the minds of our friends who saw us off with full expectation that we would be soon back again, our sad mission accomplished. Now it is hardly credible, but I state it here with a fall sense of the import of my words, that. i this arrangement obtained with such difficulty, so solemnly guaranteed as genuine by the authorised representatives of the highest officials in the province, was a hollow humbug and a fraud, a heartless, cruel, practical joke, or worse a pre-arranged. death-trap.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.