Show I 1 IX THE LAW LAM of wlater winter Q yn norte irton irk in the rift atory of alio llio M tolle othur Om hUr 1 Z I 1 A picture of like hardships af in the tic ile country au 0 to lo ti a herald re porter M te relay bj by rn who alto bid come t I 1 g 11 from to in t be heart of orilia the ho silles land whitt what tra troops lliel arc in III the I A to cc country u 1 the is er ore ap pua cs 7 ajr six m 1 the sol bc ih au au 1 iino li ww 1 k r river 1 r two a companies q of f of 1 I and three consa ILI or tho rho fifth cavalry at whito river ibriks companies of the iho fourth at hear bear river a battalion of ILA abo bourk infantry bod it two companies delc ninth tri AS annaka nako naka river w are luz living file alicy are isle Ting in 1 tents noil lied dugouts they have an of IMo lint flat no cresta vegetables and fee KM r an attack of 01 scurry tins ill i a aty vill villious it men 1 conj u fall it do dot tied flod fault it Is but i it t is n file it to send supplies doen there 1 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a cilmo wind mod blew with a velocity I 1 should my ol of sixty miles milca an hour it it had been still sliu we ke should lisle haic had find live feet feel of snow tin on a level of wo we halted fur for the iho night flight tit al seri adalino bruk the train use aa divided part pan of the iho king being left thin w stilli all lite A be of mules bod and thu the tennis being doubted up to put ten lea mules on A six mule inid tho the wagons IQ in ad moo made site two and a half antles za in six fioura 0 after tile the halt the daiv inv ura era ol al the lite wagons in advance canio piling back to rho iho k here 1 I sell tho the surgeon acre I 1 heir v laces aces were as white while as thul thit wall the burglon could to nothing but put show on their frozen faces nod and bands ile bitici lind lied left mid and 1 inkila a break tr hr dear clear life if they i bad ad boon been ten ico miles arlov of of two grid and a half the they could not have I 1 lived ted to ra teach elf us r saw mich 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ob joel 11 what whal la Is the tha coat lilma as of tile but ni oiada in al in 11 ll it is afi impossible imps salilo to get forage down to tire lliam in t tiny hey arc subsisting OD u age brush sli and dg d ing every d ly cy 11 |