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So winding isit,

that it was not until nearly noon that our progress, soain swift in the deeper reaches, brought the Sea

Rover to the lower edge of my estate Here, the river was deeper and

more silent, the waters were not quite so cold, but as we passed a

high hardwood bridge froested a halt in our voyage, to which reed We, therefore, disembarked and prepared to have our

luncheon

It was obvious to me that Jean Lafitte and Henri L'Olonnois were not

on their first expedition out-of-doors, for they set about gathering

wood and water in workmanlike fashion They did not yet fully classify

nored, or waited till I

should demonstrate myself to theestions fro them

I have mentioned the fact that I had been a hunter and traveler, and

had an all that late

in life, and deliberately To s, and accustooverned by trained reason alone, it

was never enough to say that a thing was partly done, or well enough

done to pass: only the best possible way had any appeal to ht my reason to bear on every situation in life Thus, I studied

an invest into it, I knehat the

result would be My investments, therefore, always have prospered,