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15 condition? For what purpose (answered she, with a firmness and confidence that surprised me,) hath God brought me from among wild beasts, and made me a Christian? Not surely afterwards to abandon and suffer me to perish for hunger, that is impossible; I know no other father but him, his providence will therefore support me. This ingenious reply, compensates for the pains I have taken to compose this relation, which I shall conclude with some of her own observations with regard to the first part of her life.

She has no remembrance of her parents, or any other person, and scarcely the country itself, except that they had no houses, but holes in the ground: that she frequently mounted trees, to avoid wild beasts; and that her countries were covered with snow: that, when they were carried away by the ship, on account of some attempts they made to escape, the two little savages were confined in the hold of the ship; but this precaution had like to have proved fatal both to them and the ship's company; for here they had formed a scheme of scratching a hole in the ship with their nails, by which they might make their escape into their favourite element, the water. The crew, however,