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If thefe pleafures fometimes fufFer a little inter- 

 ruption, whether by hard weather or fome other 

 unforefeen accident, it is only to render them more 

 fcnfibly felt at a fecond enjoyment. 



Were I inclined to moralize I might add, that 

 thefe alternatives of pleafure and difappointment, 

 which I have already undergone fince my fetting 

 out, are very proper to make us fenfible that there 

 is no kind of life more capable of placing this 

 maxim conftantly before our eyes, that we are no 

 more than pilgrims on the earth, and that we 

 have no right. to ufe bat as pafifengers, the good 

 things of this world ; that the real wants of man 

 are very few in number, that little is fufficient to 

 purchafe contentment, and that we ought to take 

 in good part thofe evils and crofifes which furprize 

 "us, fince with the fame rapidity they make way 

 for a mixture of better fortune. Laftly, how 

 many things contribute in this way of life to make 

 us fenfible of our dependance on the divine pro- 

 vidence, which in order to produce this mixture 

 of good and evil, makes not ufe of the paffions 

 of men but of the viciffitudes of feafons, which 

 may entirely be forefeen, and the caprice of the ele- 

 ments which we ought to look for : and confe- 

 quently what a multitude of opportunities of me- 

 riting by our confidence in, and refignation to the 

 divine will ? It is generally faid that long voyages 

 are feldom attended with a large crop of divine 

 grace ; nothing however is more proper to produce 

 it than this fort of life. 



On the fourth we flopt a good part of the day 

 on a point which runs north and fouth three leagues, 

 and which is called Pointe Pelee, or Bald Point. 

 It is however well enough wooded on the weft 



