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 catastrophe. They soon found many mangled bodies of those who had been overwhelmed by the falling of their houses, or blown with violence against a wall, tree, or roekrock [sic]. However, they relieved many who had escaped by being sheltered by rocks, trees, bushes, &e.

When the survivors were eollectedcollected [sic], who were all more or less maimed, they consulted where shelter eouldcould [sic] be obtained during the night, as all their habitations were overturned, and the materials of whiehwhich [sic] they were eomposedcomposed [sic] dispersed in all directions. While eonsultingconsulting [sic] about this matter, a young man, who lived a few miles higher up the country, joined their eompanycompany [sic] with the joyful intelligeneeintelligence [sic] that several houses in his neighbourhood remained entire; to these the eompanycompany [sic] went, taking along with them their cask of flour, whiehwhich [sic] was all they had saved of their property. The believers in Jesus, when they assembled for worship in the evening, expressed great thankfulness to God that they had a treasure in heaven whiehwhich [sic] no storm nor carthquakeearthquake [sic] eouldcould [sic] possibly reaehreach [sic]. They now understood what I meant when I told them that riehesriches [sic] sometimes took to themselves wings and flew away; also that the Lord sometimes gave and then took away, and that even then they should say, Blessed be the name of the Lord.

During the confusion and bustle occasioned by the disasters which had happened, I was frequently left to lie carelessly on the floor. When in this situation, one morning, a little boy took me up in his arms, carried me to a little distaneedistance [sic] from the house, and hid me under the root of a large old tree. The boy being taken that afternoon to a distant part of the island, none remained to diseoverdiscover [sic] to my sorrowful friends the plaeeplace [sic] of my concealment; eonsequentlyconsequently [sic], many a fruitless searehsearch [sic] was madomade [sic] for me. There I lay speeehlessspeechless [sic] for near twelve months, when an old blaekblack [sic] slave, upon a journey, happened to lie down under the shade of the tree, to rest his weary limbs. Awaking from a comfortable sleep, while in the aetact [sic] of stretehingstretching [sic] himself, his hands, whiehwhich [sic] were extended beyond my head, happened to touch my eoveringcovering [sic], whiehwhich [sic] eausedcaused [sic] him to searehsearch [sic] under the root, when he found me half immersed in sand. He called at the first house he came to, and inquired if any of the family knew me, assuring them he wished to restore me to my proper owner; but they honestly deelareddeclared [sic] that they did not know me; so I went forward with the old slave. This slave had been taught my language when first brought to the West Indies; and, therefore, though he had never met with me, or any who spoke on the subjects that I did, yet he could eonverseconverse [sic] with me tolerably well.