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were just launching a canoe. They received her with kindness, furnished 

 her with food, gave her a coarse cotton petticoat, which she preserved 

 for years afterwards as a memorial of their goodness, and carried her 

 in their canoe to Andoas, whence she found a passage down the river, 

 and finally joined her husband. Her hair turned gray from suffering, 

 and she could never hear the incidents of her voyage alluded to without 

 a feeling of horror that bordered on insanity. 



