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COMFORTABLE remove it was to me, because of my hopes. They gave me my pack and along we went cheerfully; but quickly my will proved more than my strength; having little or no refreshment, my strength failed, and my spirits were almost quite gone. Now may I say as David, Pʃalm 109. 22. 23. 24. I am poor and needy, and my heart is ''wounded within me. I am gone like the ʃhadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down like the locuʃt: My knees are weak through ƒasting, and my ƒlesh ƒaileth of ƒatneʃs''. At night we came to an Indian town, and the Indians sat down by a wigwam discoursing, but I was almost spent, and could scarce speak. I laid down my load, and went into the wigwam, and there sat an Indian boiling of