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 40 farther northward. Some of the Indians ran one way, and some another. The cause of this rout was, as I thought, their espying some English scouts, who were thereabouts. In this travel up the river about noon the company made a stop, and sat down, some to eat and others to rest them. As I sat amongst them musing on things past, my son Joseph unexpectedly came to me. We asked of each others welfare, bemoaning our doleful condition, and the change that had come upon us: We had husband and father, and children, and sisters, and friends, and relations, and house, and home, and many comforts of this life; but now we might say as Job. Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked ʃhall I return: The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, bleʃʃed be the name of the Lord. I asked him whether he would read? he told me he earnestly desired it. I gave him my Bible, and he lighted upon that