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Rh him a little before; ſo being refreſhed, he addreſſed himſelf to his Journey, with his $a$ Sword drawn in his hand, for he ſaid, I know not but ſome other Enemy may be at hand. But he met with no other affront from Apollyon, quite through this Valley.

Now at the end of this Valley, was another, called the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and Chriſtian muſt needs go through it, becauſe the way to the Cœleſtial City lay through the midſt of it: Now this Valley is a very ſolitary place. The Prophet $a$ Jeremiah thus deſcribes it, A Wilderneſs, a Land of deſarts, and of Pits, a Land of drought, and of the ſhadow of death, a Land that no Man (but a Chriſtian) paſſeth through, and where no man dwelt.

Now here Chriſtian was worſe put to it then in his fight with Apllyon, as by the ſequel you ſhall ſee. I ſaw then in my Dream, that when Chriſtian was got to the Borders of the Shadow of Death, there met him two Men, $b$ Children of them that brought up an evil report of the good Land, making haſt to Rh