BEGINNING ADVENTURES IN NEW LANDS In those days travel was not so easy as it is now.

I went by carriage to Washington, and thence by stage to the village of York in Pennsylvania, and again by stage thence to Carlisle Barracks, a good road offering thence into the western countries.

In spite of all my grief I was a young man, and I was conscious of a keen exhilaration in these my earliest travels.

I was to go toward that great West, which then was on the tongue of all the South, and indeed all the East.

I found Pennsylvania old for a hundred years.