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deliverance from dangers. 
population was a bloodless one ; and that my intercourse 
with them was such as to lessen the danger to future ad- 
venturers upon such hazardous enterprizes, and to give 
them hope where I had so often despaired. Something 
more powerful, than human foresight or human prudence, 
appeared to avert the calamities and dangers with which I 
and my companions were so frequently threatened ; and 
had it not been for the guidance and protection we received 
from the Providence of that good and all-wise Being 
to whose care we committed ourselves, we should, ere this, 
have ceased to rank among the number of His earthly 
creatures. 
