of John Cockburn, &c. 199 



I faw not the leaft Profpect of getting any 

 Thing to fupport Life. Amidft all our for^ 

 mer Fears, Toils, and Sufferings, when they 

 happen'd in common with my Fellow-Tra* 

 vellers, and that we were ready at Hand to 

 advife with, and affift each other ; I may 

 truly fay, that my Spirits never once failed 

 me; but how did I bitterly lament my now 

 moft calamitous Ctrcumftance ! At laft, by 

 God's Grace, I fo far prevailed with myfelf, 

 as to recoiled fome imall Share of Refold 

 tion, that I might not fuccumb through any 

 Fault of my own, wholly relying on the 

 Concurrence of Heaven to aflift me in 

 what it might be my Fate to go through. 



Having thus fortified myfelf as well as 

 I could, when all Hopes of ever feeing 

 my poor Indians were quite extinguifhcd 

 and gone, I refolvcd to travel along thq 

 Sea-fliore while Life remained, or till God 

 Almighty fhould otherwise difpofe of me; 

 but at my Departure from this fatal Place, 

 beholding the Whig warn, and reflecting on 

 thofe who help'd to raife it for our common 

 Conveniency, I could not refrain from burft*. 

 ing forth, into ftefli Lamentations, and partly 



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