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Luxuries of Life

"Now I have a little idea of traveling without the luxuries of life. On my journeys I occupy a tent wherever it is practicable to carry one; which however is not often...more frequently I lie under the boughs of a Pine Tree, without anything further." – David Douglas, 1825
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