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 by that dear fireside, where I have tasted the most unalloyed pleasure that earth affords, and recount to you and the dear children, the perils, the toils, and the sufferings, through which I have passed since I left my native land. In this happy circle I should for a moment forget

On the 19th of September we re-embarked, and Mrs N. enjoyed comfortable health till nearly three weeks after leaving Coringa; and about three weeks before reaching the Isle of France, when she became the mother of a fine healthy daughter. Four days after, in consequence of a severe storm of wind and ruin, the child look cold, and died on the evening of the next day, after having been demoted to God in baptism. About a week after Mrs N.'s confinment; the symptoms of a consumption appeared. Though Mr N feared the worst, we did not consider her case as fatal, till the last fortnight of her life, which commenced about ten days after their arrival at the Isle of France. There was but little alteration in Mrs N.'s health, (excepting that she gradually lost strength) till about a fortnight before her death, when she declined more rapidly, and all hope of her recovery as extinguished. About four o'clock on Monday the 30th of November, her eyesight failed her, soon after which she calmly, and with apparent ease, expired, seven weeks and four days after her confinment.

"In view of those sufferings which she afterwards experienced, she writes thus! 'I hope to reach the place of our destination in good health, but I feel no anxiety about that. I know that God orders every thing in the best possible manner. He so orders events, that I should suffer pain and sickness on the stormy ocean, without a friend, exposed to the greatest inconveniences