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he came back, he ſaid, "Janet, go back to your aunt's, for you will not ſee Scotland theſe five months; there will ſtrange things go through Scotland ere you go to it, you will ſee a remarkable providence in your being ſtopt." The bark went off, and was caſt away, and 17 paſſengers' corpſe were caſt out at the place where they took ſhip. John Muirhead gave me this account alſo.
21. After he came to Scotland, in the beginning of March 1685, flying from the enemy on horſeback, and they purſuing, he was forced to ride a water, where he was in great danger of being loſt: When he got out, he cried, "Lads, follow not me, for I aſſure you; ye want my boat, and ſo will certainly drown. Consider where your landing will be! ye are fighting for hell, and running poſt to it." Which affrighted them to enter the water.
22. At another time, being hard purſued, he was forced to take a dangerous bog and a moſs before him: One of the Dragoons, more forward than the reſt run himself into the bog, and he and his horſe were never ſeen more.
23. Lying ſick in a village near Cumnock, he told his landlord, who was afraid to keep him in his houſe, the ſoldiers being to travel through that town the next day, "Ye need not fear to let me ſtay in your houſe, for ſome of theſe ſoldiers ſhall keep centry at the door, but ſhall not come in." Which came to paſs: His landlord being digging ſtones at the end of that village, told the officers that he was afraid the ſoldiers would plunder his cottage. They ſaid, "Poor man, you deſerve encouragement for your virtu ; be not afraid of your houſe, we will order two ſoldiers to ſtand at your door, that no man enter to wrong you." Which they did.
24 He lying ſick about the ſame time, his landlord was afraid to keep him in his houſe. The enemy being in ſearch of hiding people, he was obliged to make a bed for him among the ſtanding corn; at which time there was a great riſing of the water, but not one drop to be obſerved within ten foot of his bed.
25. About this time he came to Garfield, in the pariſh
