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 102 and in pursuit of the enemy, and so near as to overtake several and destroy them; and the enemy in such distress for food, that our men might track them by their rooting the ground for ground-nuts, whilst they were flying for their lives: I say, that then our army should want provisions, and be obliged to leave their pursuit, and return homeward, and the very next week the enemy came upon our town, like bears bereft of their whelps, or so many ravenous wolves, rending us and our lambs to death. But what shall I say? God seemed to leave his people to themselves, and ordered all things for his own holy ends. Shall there be evil in the ''city, and the Lord hath not done it? They are not grieved for the affliction of Joʃeph, therefore they ʃhall go captive, with the firʃt that go captive. It is the Lord's doing, and it ʃhould he marvellous in our eyes.''

2. I cannot but remember how the Indians derided the slowness and the