text:  With a smile of well-pleased wonder at the exaggerations of the press which were persuading the Londoners that the "dogs of war" were really "let slip" among these our green mountains and pastoral valleys after enjoying this prospect of a village by moonlight at the foot of the majestic _Mynydd Du_ (black mountain ) whose range is seen by day towering at a few miles' distance and hugging myself in the security of life and purse which warriors (if they would cross-question their own great hearts) do really prize as much as I do I returned to bed (the heat of which had first driven me forth to this air-bath of half an hour