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1770. be reduced to the necessity of depending upon them for 

 ^^^^ ' support ; so that, though I laid me down to rest, sleep was 

 a stranger to me that night. The following beautiful lines of 

 Dr. Young I repeated above an hundred times : 



" Tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ; 

 He, like the world, his ready visit pays 

 ^Vhere fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes : 

 Swift on his downy pinions flies from woe, 

 And lights on lids unsully'd with a tear." 



— Night Thoughts. 



9th. After passing the night in this melancholy manner, I got 

 up at day-break, and, with the two Southern Indians, set out 

 in quest of our deserter. Many hours elapsed in fruitless 

 search after him, as we could not discover a single track in 

 the direction which we were informed he had taken. The 

 day being almost spent without the least appearance of 

 success, 1 proposed repairing to the place where I had de- 

 livered the quadrant to him, in hopes of seeing some track in 

 the moss that might lead to the way the Indians were gone 

 whom our deserter had accompanied. On our arrival at that 

 place, we found they had struck down toward a little river 

 which they had crossed the morning before ; and there, to 

 our great joy, we found the quadrant and the bag of powder 

 lying on the top of a high stone, but not a human being was 

 to be seen. On [45] examining the powder, we found that 

 the bag had been opened, and part of it taken out ; but, not- 

 withstanding our loss was very considerable, we returned with 

 light hearts to the place at which we had been the night 

 before, where we found our baggage safe, but all the Indians 

 gone ; they had, however, been so considerate as to set up 

 marks to direct us what course to steer. By the time we had 

 adjusted our bundles, the day was quite spent ; seeing, how- 

 ever, a smoke, or rather a fire, in the direction we were ordered 

 to steer, we bent our way towards it ; and a little after ten 

 o'clock at night came up with the main body of the Indians ; 



