We stopped over one day with them, to rest, and two of them concluded to go with us.

We were furnished with a lot of cooked provisions, and starting one night made forty-two miles before morning.
We kept the negros in advance.

I told Hommat that it was a poor command that could not afford an advance guard.

After traveling two nights with the negros, we came near Baldwin.

Here I was very much afraid of recapture, and I did not want the negros with us, if we were, lest we should be shot for slave-stealing.