of John Cockburn, &c. 1 97 



Reafon but, however, to pals away the 

 Time, and drive melancholy Thoughts out 

 of my Mind, which I found were crowding 

 in upon me, I got up and employed my 

 Time in gathering Wood to laft us all Night* 

 Thus I went on with a heavy Heart, till 

 the Sun Went down, and Darknefs came 

 on apace, and no Indians appeared : This 

 threw me into a dreadful Conflict, as would 

 have been the Cafe of any other Man, who 

 like me had fufpected himfelf to be aban- 

 doned and forfaken in the moft defolate 

 Part of this wild Country ; where, as 1 had 

 been well informed, were no Inhabitants for 

 fome Hundreds of Miles round me. 



At firft I knew not what to think would 

 become of me, nor indeed whether I thought 

 at all ; but when I reflected on the conftant 

 good Nature of thefe People in general, I 

 could not think thefe capable of fo great 

 a Cruelty, as voluntarily to leave me thus 

 deftitute and alone, furrounded with Terrors, 

 and expofed to Variety of Sufferings ; £o 

 that, I began to fear they had been furprifed 

 and devoured by fome wild Beafts, which 

 immediately ufliered in a Hope, that, per-* 

 O I haps 3 



