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 experience of want, weariness, cold and hunger, enemies daily hunting for thy life, while in the  look to them and provide for them." The  being advertised of the bark being in that place,  and other people came upon them, which  them that were to come off, to secure the  and people altogether, for fear of the garrison  Carrickfergus apprehending them, being near to  which obliged them to come off immediately, twenty-six of our Scots sufferers came aboard, he stood  the deck and prayed, there being not the least, where he made a rehearsal of times and places,  and where the Lord had heard and answered  in the days of their distress, and how they were  a great strait. Waving his hand to the west,  whence he desired the wind, he said, 'Lord give  loof-full of wind: fill the sails, Lord and give us  fresh gale, and let us have a swift passage over to  bloody land, come of us what will.' John , Robert Wark, and others who were present told  that when he began to pray, the sails were all hanging straight down, but ere he ended, they were  like blown bladders. They put out the Waiters other people and got a very swift and safe  The twenty-six Scots Sufferers that were with  having provided themselves with arms, and  designed to return to Scotland, there being then  a noise of killing; and the report was no greater than  deed, it being then in the heat of killing time,  the end of February, 1685, when at exercise in  bark, he said, 'Lord thou knowest these lads are  spirited, lay an arrest upon them, that they may