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7 storm of frost and snow; on which occasion, after making good her escape, she betook herself to a tree for shelter. The confusion which the family was thrown into was great, who, after searching the house to no purpose, resolved at last to look for her without; where they found her perched on the top of a high tree; from whence, however, they were lucky enough to prevail on her to come down.

I myself have been an eye-witness to some instances of her ease and swiftness, than which nothing could be more surprising; and yet what I saw, was but the remains of her former agility, which long sickness, and the want of practice for many years, had greatly impaired. Without having seen it, it is hardly possible to imagine her singular and agile manner of running; even for several years after she was caught, she could overtake the game in the chace.

Mademoiselle le Blanc, the name by which she is now called, remembers perfectly well her having passed a river two or three days before she was taken; and we shall see by and by, that this is one of the most certain facts of her history. She was then accompanied by another black girl, who was a little older than herself: