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finding all hope fail, and as from the heat and flies 

 she had now become loathsome, they gave her the 

 choice, either to be put to death by the youths of the 

 place, or go to the woods to die or be farther de- 

 voured, as might happen ! The little girl chose the 

 woods, determining in this forlorn condition to cast 

 herself on the mercy of this Institution ; and although 

 she had never been at the Station, she believed from 

 what she had heard, that, could she reach the place, 

 she should receive the protection and help which he 

 who claimed the endearing name of father had 

 longer refused to give, and which she had no right 

 anywhere else to expect among her own nation. 

 With this resolution she set out, and although she 

 had to travel several miles through deep glens, suc- 

 ceeded in reaching the Station, an awful picture of 

 deformity and suffering, all but in a state of nudity, 

 covered with large wounds to the number of fourteen, 

 among the most ghastly of which was that of the head 

 and face : the wolf, having endeavoured to grasp the 

 -whole head, had torn the mouth open to the ear, and 

 stripped the head of the upper part of its covering, 

 making a terrible wound of eight inches. Through 

 the mercy of God she is quite recovered, and scarcely 

 at all deformed ; but she refuses ever to return to 

 those who forced her into the woods to die. I am 

 happy to add that a few days since, as I was walking 

 a little distance from the house, I heard some one 

 in fervent prayer ; and as I could discover the voice 



