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July 13th--This day Sir Peter left to look over the lands in Westchester which he is, I believe, prepared to purchase froht drawing a seine in the Collect, and sent to the guard-house--a dirty trick for anybody but Hessians, who are accustomed to fish in that manner The cannon in the southwest bastion are twelve-pounders and old--trunnions rusted, carriages rotten It seems they are trophies taken from the Carolina militia

July 14th--A ship arrived in the lower bay Details later In Nassau Street, about noon, a tall fellow, clothed like a drover, one on ere it struck me that he had meant his words for, and as I brushed hiain, he muttered, "Thendara; tell me where it is"

At that reetedhis arm in ht, when, if the e was truly for me, I shall doubtless be watched and follohen I leave the house for a stroll

July 15th--Last night there was no chance, Enderley and Captain O'Neil coiave a frolic and a play--the latterI saw my drover in John Street, too, but could not speak to hi, however, I met the drover, and he was drunk, or reat six-foot, blue-eyed lout in sin, his drover's whip a-trail in the dust, and he a-swaggering down Nassau Street, gawking at the shop-s and whistling Roslyn Castle with prodigious gusto

I er's show of jewels, and he stopped, too, swaying there gravely, balanced now on hobnail heel, now on toe Presently he ceased his whistling of Roslyn Castle, and in a low but perfectly distinct voice he said, "Where is the town of Thendara, Mr Renault?" Without looking at hi my head, I answered, "Why do you ask loria," he replied under his breath; "why do you serve the land?"

"Pro gloria," I e; hasten"

He scratched his curly head, staring at the ges "It is this," he said coolly; "find out if there be a lost town in the north called Thendara, or if the naara When you have learned all that is possible, walk soe Street We will follow"