KAH-GE-GA- GAH-BOWH. '77

rise on the top. The sail spread itself like a duck
just ready to fly. It appeared at times that we must
all perish. But God was with us. 0 how kind and
merciful is that Being who has the winds and waves
in his hands! “ O Lord I will praise thee,” etc. It
is religion alone that can support in the time of danger.
Faith lays hold on God. Yes, let .a’is2‘res's, sz'c/mess,
trials, perils, and even death come, yet if in thy hands,
0 Lord, we are secure.

Through a kind providence, we arrived at last at
Brother Herkimer’s, about ten o’clock, A. M. How
we surprised them when they were told that We sailed
all the morning through the fog. They at once saw the
danger; but we could take no other course. VVe re-
Inained here but a few days. On Tuesday we left for
La Pointe, one hundred and sixty miles. Here was
another tedious journey, for we were again wind-bound
for three days; in consequence of this misfortune our
provisions were exhausted. We went to Ah-too-nah-
kun River on Friday evening, and traveled all night to
reach Porcupine Mountains, where we arrived at day-
light. VVe stepped out of the canoe,took our blankets,
wrapped them around us, and lay on the solid rocks,
where we slept about an hour anda half. Saturday
morning arrived, and found us with nothing but half a
pound of tea; we were now eighty-eight miles from La
Pointe. VVe rowed all the morning, when a favorable
breeze sprung up, which enabled us to gain fifty miles du-
ring that day. After night-fall we toiled to reach La
Pointe by twelve o’clock on Saturday night; but we were

so fatigued, sleepy, and hungry, that it was impossible to
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