Prussia, nine miles beyond Konigsberg.

Feb. 28.--We continued, tired, anxious, and distressed, at Lettel.

March 1.--We went three miles to Pleese, and on the 2nd, a mile and
a half farther to Meseritz.

March 3.--Through Wersebaum to Birnbaum, three miles.

March 4.--Through Zircke, Wruneck, Obestchow, to Stubnitz, seven
miles, in one day, three of which we had the good fortune to ride.

March 5.--Three miles to Rogosen, where we arrived without so much
as a heller to pay our lodgings. The Jew innkeeper drove us out of
his house; we were obliged to wander all night, and at break of day
found we had strayed two miles out of the road.

We entered a peasant's cottage, where an old woman was drawing bread
hot out of the oven. We had no money to offer, and I felt, at this
moment, the possibility even of committing murder, for a morsel of
bread, to satisfy the intolerable cravings of hunger. Shuddering,
with torment inexpressible, at the thought, I hastened out of the
door, and we walked on two miles more to Wongrofze.

Here I sold my musket for a ducat, which had procured us many a
meal: such was the extremity of our distress. We then satiated our
appetites, after having been forty hours without food or sleep, and
having travelled ten miles in sleet and snow.

March 6.--We rested, and came, on the 7th, through Genin, to a