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after the others had left, she started for meeting, and crawled over logs, through creeks. and other diflicmt places near the edges of rocks. Old Anna made her appearance in the house, to the astonishment as well as to the delight of all. She seated herself in front of the preacher, and listened attentively to the words of eter- nal life. She united with others in praising God for his mercy and goodness, especially to herself. She then partook of the body and blood of her Saviour. She spoke of the day in which she was in darkness; but now she knew, by experience, that the Lord had for- given her sins. She cared not for the water, mud or precipices, if she could only crawl or creep to meeting, for she felt well rewarded, because the Lord blessed her. She did not, like some, fear to soil her clothes; neither was she a fair day visilfor of meeting. Before her conversion, she was a celebrated Conjurer, and a dread to the nation ; every one was afraid to incur her displeasure. The last time I saw her, was in 1842, and she was still confiding in the Lord.

We were now to accompany Brother Clark to St. Marie. \Ve started on Tuesday afternoon at about three o’clock, in our large bark canoe, which was about thirty- six feet long, five feet wide in the centre, and three feet high. VVe paddled about nine miles. On the next

morning, we hoisted our sail before a fresh breeze and sailed at the rate of nine knots an hour.- VVe reached

the point on the Sand Banks in the evening, havingpre- viously tarried three hours with the Indians at Grand Island. The next day we sailed about six miles from the shore ; it was quite boisterous; and when in the trough