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40 cattle tackled with the utmot expedition. The Quarter Matters provided every neceary accommodation for the march: ome of the tores they ent before them by water; the ret was drawn in hacketies and waggons, by bullocks. Mr. Baker, who was alo Quarter Mater, and his brother Officers in the ame line, had each a company of Seapoys, as a piquet guard along the road, and about even hundred attendants, who were occaionally employed, as the army moved their camp, in pitching and triking the tents, compoed of the lowet order of the people reiding in the country, and forming many ditinct tribes, according to their various occupations. We had a certain number