34 ffi* T>i(lrejfes and Adventures 



All this Day we fleered our Courfe to 

 the Southward, as near as we could guefs by 

 the Sun, till we came to fome very high 

 Mountains, one of which we afcended ; 

 from whence we faw a fmall Plain, and be- 

 yond that, Mountains of fuch prodigious 

 Heighth, that we could not fee their Tops. 

 We defcended to the Plain, when my Fel- 

 low-Travellers asked me, if we were going 

 right > I could only anfwer we muft truft to 

 Providence, which had hitherto wonderfully 

 protected us \ Mr. Banijier faid, he was re- 

 folved to go back, for that the Indians hacl 

 dire£ted us into the Mountains, only with 

 Intent that we ftiould never come out of 

 them, and that, if we proceeded, we muft 

 inevitably perifti there. As we flood de- 

 bating, I faw three little Things running 

 thro* the Grafs (which was pretty high) 

 with the Swiftnefi of Deer, but could not 

 perceive what they were ; however we fol- 

 lowed, and obferved them to take into a 

 Whigwam, towards which we made all the 

 Hafte we could, and found them to be 

 three Indian Boys. In this Whigwam fat 

 m old Man who was ftone blind, on whom 



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