Possible Clues:

• As utter misery beginning to advance, use ill-conceived cuts
• I, say, come to grief with utter hardship
• Absence of luxuries
• Self-denial
• Strictness
• I stay true, prepared for great self-denial
• Coldness experienced in it in choppy estuary
• Severity of manners or life
• Severeness of manner
• Harsh condition in treaty with US I revised