milled. He and his men fired several shots & thus frightened away the muleteers. Then they opened the packs, & carried away on their shoulders what they wanted into the mountains. At this place we found passed thru a deep rocky ravine clad deerly by bushes & trees). The summiting mountain are quite clad, the place was an excellent cover for ambush, quite weird. In the meantime of our small town of Tamaqua say when we moved we found it jammed with jackals & cows. Every traveler apparently was afraid to go forward & were constantly looking at the roads again, until too clear. We halted.