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a considerable time. His exhortation proved a heavenly one to me and I soon experienced its saving virtue, for it was no sooner concluded, than the ferocity of all the surrounding countenances was entirely dispelled a pleasing composure assumed its place, and I was happily set at liberty The most refined sensibility of my gentle readers, cannot inspire them with a just sense of that divine consolation which overflowed my enraptured soul, on being thus happily delivered from the voracious jaws of death. The extatic joy which now possessed my mind, enabled me chearfully to resign myself to the will of the Omnipotent Creator, who I now perceived had been my kind Deliverer: I consequently sentenced to black oblivion all my past sufferings, and determined calmly to submit to such future fate as might befal me.
On being taken down from the stake, I repaired with the rest of the company to the fire, and shared in eating the animals that were thereon; after which we lay down around the fire to sleep. Next morning, as the tribe were preparing for the chase, I was filled with secret anxiety to see what must be my station amongst them; and was very agreeably surprised on being directed to walk along with the archers, without either a bow or burden of any kind: for they yet knew not but that I was really an Indian and had strayed from my companions But alas! these happy times were not of long
