Flight from Ebaddan 
While 1 was praying the burden of my heart 
seemed to melt away, and 1 became conscious of 
a very strong assurance that I would soon be de¬ 
livered out of my distressed condition. The feel¬ 
ing was so strong that it greatly strengthened my 
body by refreshing my spirit. My body was 
racked with the pains of the African fever but 
my heart was sweetly at rest in God; and the 
night I passed in Ewo, is vividly contrasted in 
my memory with my hideous experience at 
Lahlookpon. 
A broiled piece of porcupine meat tempted me 
to take a little nourishment—the first I had tasted 
since leaving Ebaddan. During the night we 
heard a mother silence her child with the warn¬ 
ing, “ Kumee will catch you.” We gathered 
from this that we were not yet among the friends 
of our chief, and that it would be advisable to 
leave the town as soon as practicable. We had 
left our horses outside the gate of the town in 
charge of our guide and so soon as the gate was 
open we mounted and set out for Ogbomishaw. 
When leaving, I told my companion of the 
change in my feelings. 
“That is just the way I felt, too, sir,”said he 
with a brightened countenance; for up to this time 
his face had worn an exceedingly sad expression. 
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