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Father Winter
They reached Buffalo on the 29th or 30th of October; having been seventeen or eighteen days on the way, a distance that may now be made on a summer day, "between sun and sun. " The village contained about 200 inhabitants (now claimed to be 240, 000), and was full of officers and soldiers, and our travelers could not find a comfortable place to stay. Mr. Winter proceeded at once to look for a vessel on which to continue his journey by the lake to Portland, —the port nearest to Chautauqua lake, upon which he expected to get another stage by water its entire length, and there by a road, little more than a trail, to the home he had spent two years in preparing.
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