Allowed to sleep all night. Anyone who knows how I hate
snakes and all sorts of reptiles, will imagine my disgust at finding a lizard
in my bed after the blanket was taken off this morning. If I had been the
lizard I should have chosen a softer bed than mine was. One of my officers
killed eight snakes yesterday. One of the rattlesnakes had eleven rattles.
Yesterday afternoon the mess pail arrived. It quite set me
up. I have felt better ever since. To-day we use it for the first time.
SOURCE: Francis Winthrop Palfrey, Memoir of William
Francis Bartlett, p. 80
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