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plantation, staying as long as appeared necessary at 

 each. Three or four gentlemen in Carolina I have 

 met with that would be sincerely glad of such an as- 

 sistant, who might pursue his work with no more hin- 

 derances than must everywhere attend the preaching 

 of the gospel." 



His third and last visit to Charleston was made on 

 the occasion of his embarking for England. Leaving 

 Savannah after evening prayers, December 2, 1737, he 

 came to Purysburg early in the morning of the next 

 day, and failing to procure a guide for Port Royal, he 

 set out without one. After walking two or three hours 

 he met an old man who led him into a small path, 

 near which was a line of blazed trees, by following 

 which, he said, he might easily come to Port Royal in 

 five or six hours. He was accompanied by four per- 

 sons, one of whom intended to go to England with 

 him ; the other two to settle in Carolina. About eleven 

 they came into a large swamp, where they wandered 

 about till near two. They then found another blaze, 

 and pursued it till it divided into two; one of them 

 they followed through an almost impassable thicket, 

 a mile beyond which it ended. They made through 

 the thicket again, and traced the other blaze till that 

 also ended. It now grew toward sunset, so they sat 

 down, faint and weary, having had no food all day, ex- 

 cept a cake of gingerbread, which he had taken in his 

 pocket. A third of this they had divided among them 

 at noon; another third they took now; the rest they 

 reserved for the morning; but they had met with no 

 water all the day. Thrusting a stick into the ground 

 and finding the end of it moist, two of their company 

 began to dig with their hands, and at the depth of 

 about three feet found water. They thanked God, 



