After traveling several miles I found another large plantation where there was a prospect of finding a horse.

I stepped up to the barn-yard, wherein I found several horses.
There was a little barn standing with the door open, and I found it quite an easy task to get the horses into the barn, and select out the best looking one of them.

I pulled down the fence, led the noble beast out and mounted him, taking a northern direction, being able to find a road which led that way.

But I had not gone over three or four miles before I came to a large stream of water which was past fording; yet I could see that it had been forded by the road track, but from high water it was then impassible.

As the horse seemed willing to go in I put him through; but before he got in far, he was in water up to his sides and finally the water came over his back and he swam over.