Large and beautiful plantations were on each side of me, from which I could hear dogs bark, and the driver's horn sounding.

On reaching the trees, I found that they afforded but a poor place of concealment.

On either hand, through its openings, I could see the men turning out to the cotton fields.

I found a place to lie down between two oak stumps, around which the new shoots had sprung up thickly, forming a comparatively close shelter.

After eating some peaches, which since leaving the Indian settlement had constituted my sole food, I fell asleep.