I told Mr.
Kennedy to put the saddles on the horses and go on, and the blacks came up and they followed us all day.

All along it was raining.

I now told him to leave the horses and come on without them, that horses made too much track.

Mr.Kennedy was too weak, and would not leave the horses.

We went on this day until the evening; raining hard and the blacks followed us all day, some behind, some planted before.