of his Function in this Iſland. It was his Cuſtom to pass ſome Hours every Evening in a Field near his Houſe, indulging Meditation, and calling himſelf to an account for the Tranſactions of the paſt Day. As he was in this Place one Night, more than ordinarily wrapt in Contemplation, he wandered, without thinking where he was, a conſiderable Way farther than it was uſual for him to do; and as he told me, ke knew not how far the deep Muſing he was in, might have carried him, if it had not been ſuddenly interrupted by a Noiſe, which, at firſt, he took to be the diſtant Bellowing of a Bull; but as he liſtned more heedfully to it, found there was ſomething more terrible in the Sound, than could proceed from that Creature. He confeſs'd to me, that he was no leſs affrighted than ſurprized, eſpecially when the Noiſe coming ſtill nearer, he imagined whatever it was, that it proceeded from, it muſt paſs him: he had, however, Preſence enough of Mind to place himſelf with his Back to a Hedge, where he ſell on his Knees, and began to pray to God with all the Vehemence ſo dreadful an Occaſion required. He had not been long in that Poſition,
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