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American travel diary of an unknown Englishman, 1864
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First it looked at though a fair was going on, lots of traps & horses about & tents & provisions, the tents were several of them for prayer for the supposed converted & in which they vociferated louding & appeared to be in a state of most distressing excitement, any one could hollow out just what he thought fit, but they generally said much the same thing, "help us now" 'Amen' &c. were very common especially 'now' & 'just now help' were very popular, there seemed to be about an equal number of men & women among the supposed converts. There was a good dinner in the provision tent & certainly
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First it looked at though a fair was going on, lots of traps & horses about & tents & provisions, the tents were several of them for prayer for the supposed converted & in which they vociferated louding & appeared to be in a state of most distressing excitement, any one could hollow out just what he thought fit, but they generally said much the same thing, "help us now" 'Amen' &c. were very common especially 'now' & 'just now help' were very popular, there seemed to be about an equal number of men & women among the supposed converts. There was a good dinner in the provision tent & certainly
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