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few or no parts of it, which are not very' Accessible, and no 

 Place but affords abundantly Meat and Drink. Go where 

 you will, and if you see no Game, you need only strike 

 against a Tree, or cry out as hard as you can, and Game will 

 immediately offer it self of all sorts, which you may knock 

 down with a Stick or Stone. 'Twas Chance made us experi- 

 ence this, because when we walkt out together and wander'd 

 in the Woods, if any one of us lost Company with the rest, 

 we were forc'd to cry aloud to let him know where we were, 

 that he might come to us. We were then amaz'd to see 

 what quantities of Birds flew out, and ran up and down from 

 all parts about us ; Providence as it were bid us Kill and 

 Eat} and we had nothing to do but to fire a Fuzee, and roast 

 what we kill'd to provide a Feast ; Turtles are to be met with 

 every where. The Air is so sweet and so temperate, that 

 one might lye down boldly under the Canopy of the Sky ; 

 but if we pleas'd, might at any time make a sort of Hutt 

 immediately with five or six Plantane-Leaves which we have 

 spoken of. 



To return to our Employments, and the manner of spend- 

 ing our tedious Hours, I shall add without Boasting, that we 

 had every day our exercises of Devotion. On Sundays we 

 did as far as we cou'd what is practised in our French 

 Churches, for we had the Bible entire with us ; some Hymns, 

 a large Commentary on the Testament, and several Sermons 

 upon the Old Hock, which were sensible Discourses. If we 

 had believ'd we shou'd spend the rest of our Days there, or 

 at least stay some longer time than we did, or intended, what 

 shou'd have hinder'd the Wisest among us from taking upon 

 him the Ministerial Office ; and that these two or three 

 meeting together, and in the Name of God, shou'd not have 

 form'd a true Church, and have received those particular Con- 

 solations which are participated in the Holy Communions. 



1 The Acts X, 13 : " And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter ; kill 

 and eat.'' ' ' 



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