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barely kept from starving, in fact we have at times suffered for a sufficient quantity of food, but never more than a few days at a time. I am aware that my calling on you is rather a bold step for an entire stranger, but desperate cases require desperate remedies & we are all human beings, tending to that bourne [[?]] from whence no traveller returns, & if we obey our Saviours injunction to be kind to the stranger. It may ultimately be of benefit to [[strikethrough]] you [[/strikethrough]] us if not in this world, perhaps in the next, a young lady with whom I have become acquainted since residing here, remarked, that she intended to visit you on my behalf, but as she did not the idea was suggested to me to go myself, which I did, but as to how it will