12.. Baines found traveling conditions difficult. In April J 848,
his oxen got into a chaotic tangle while he was trying to cross a
small stream. "The wagon stuck with its disselboorn or pole so
elevated that the after-oxen could not apply their strength, and
turning refractory, they were kicked, lashed, dragged, and
twisted by the tail, beaten, cursed and remonstrated with, as if
language were actually intelligible to them."
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