SOUTH CAROLINA 325 



stand that he perceived our iuteution of quitting France, and if we 

 asked any favours of him, he would inform against us. We therefore 

 made the best of our way for Metz, in Lorraine, where we embarked 

 on the river Moselle, in order to go to Treves — from thence we passed 

 to Coblentz and Cologne, where we left the Rhine, to go by land to 

 Wesel, where we met with an host who spoke a little French, and in- 

 formed us we were only thirty leagues from Lunenburg. We knew 

 that you were in winter quarters there. Our deceased mother and 

 myself earnestly besought my eldest brother to go that way with us ; 

 or, leaving us with her, to pay you a visit alone. It was in the depth 

 of winter ; but he would not hear of it, having Carolina so much in 

 his head that he dreaded losing any opportunity of going thither. Oh, 

 what grief the losing so fine an opportunity of seeing you at least once 

 more, has caused me ! How have I regretted seeing a brother show so 

 little feeling, and how often have I reproached him with it ! But he 

 was our master, and we were constrained to do as he pleased. 



We passed on to Holland, to go from thence to England. We re- 

 mained in London three months, waiting for a passage to Carolina. 

 Having embarked, we were sadly off : the spotted fever made its ap- The Spotted 

 pearance on board our vessel, of which disease many died, and among ^^^^ 

 them our aged mother. Nine months elapsed before our arrival in 

 Carolina. We touched two ports — one a Portuguese, and the other an 

 island called Bermuda, belonging to the English, to refit our vessel, 

 which had been much injured in a storm. Our captain having com- 

 mitted some misdemeanor, was put in prison, and the vessel seized. 

 Our money was all spent, and it was with great difficulty we procured 

 a passage in another vessel. After our arrival in Carolina we suffered Hardships and 

 every kind of evil. In about eighteen months our elder brother, uu- " enngs 

 accustomed to the hard labour we had to undergo, died of a fever. 

 Since leaving France we had experienced every kind of affliction — 

 disease, pestilence, famine, poverty, hard labour. I have been for six 

 months together without tasting bread, working the ground like a 

 slave ; and I have even passed three or four years without always hav- 

 ing it when I wanted it. God has done great things for us, in enab- 

 ling us to bear up under so many trials. I should never have done, 

 were I to attempt to detail to you all our adventures; let it suffice that 

 God has had compassion on me, and changed my fate to a more happy 

 one, for which glory be unto Him. 



Such was the faith that coukl not be overthrown by 

 snflferiug and hardsliip. This yonng woman, left alone in 

 the world, found a worthy husband in Peter Manigault. 



