Like the hardy Briton, whom, under the circumstances, we may readily suppose them to have emulated, they addressed themselves, with little murmuring, to the tasks before them.
We have, at the hands of one of their number,--a lady born and raised in affluence at home,--a lively and touching picture of the sufferings and duties, which, in Carolina, at that period, neither sex nor age was permitted to escape.

"After our arrival," she writes, "we suffered every kind of evil.

In about eighteen months our elder brother, unaccustomed to the hard labor we were obliged to undergo, died of a fever.

Since leaving France, we had experienced every kind of affliction, disease, pestilence, famine, poverty and hard labor! I have been for six months together without tasting bread, working the ground like a slave; and I have even passed three or four years without always having it when I wanted it.

I should never have done were I to attempt to detail to you all our adventures."* * The narrative of Mrs.Judith Manigault, wife of Peter Manigault, as quoted by Ramsay .-- Hist.