Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster war from all lands with her hated associates rapine and insatiable ambition!
Let peace descending from her native heaven bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations and plenty in league with commerce scatter blessings from her copious hand!
All you need for happiness is a good gun a good horse and a good wife.
In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
We were then in a dangerous helpless situation exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts not a white man in the country but ourselves.
