effects of the fatigue and rain, that we were unable to act, in pursuance of her advice. Pitying our condition, but anxious to provide for her own safety, she proceeded on her journey.

My mind was in a most agonized state, and my frighted imagination heard in the rustling of every leaf the wily approach of the ferocious tiger. Upon casting my eyes towards my fellowsufferer, to my astonishment, I again perceived that he was insensible to all external impressions. Following his example, I became resigned, and laying my head upon my knapsack, attempted to compose myself, but found it impossible. I had lain in this afflicting position for nearly an hour, when my ears were gladdened with the shouts of some Indians, at a distance; and whether friend or foe, either appeared a relief from the prospect of certain destruction, which at present awaited As the sounds gained upon my ear, I roused my companion, and immediately afterwards our former friends appeared: this was indeed a joyous sight to me, who, but a few minutes before, had resigned myself to a miserable death. The female, who had previously looked on us with such compassionate kindness,now gave us to understand, that she had represented our forlorn condition to our former friends, and though somewhat wearied themselves, they obeyed the dictates of nature, and returned to relieve us from our dangers and difficulties.

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Somewhat refreshed by the repose, and the cir culation restored to our benumbed limbs, by brisk friction with the hands, we arose; and our kind friends having laden themselves with our luggage, urged us forward. Notwithstanding their fatigue, the Indians again began to gain ground upon us, and again my countryman began to wax weary and faint. I endeavoured to rouse his lagging spirits, and by example, animate him to further exertion, but found it impossible; he became still weaker and more depressed, and ultimately fell to the ground. Our friends had outstripped us, and what to do I knew not; upon examination, I conjectured I perceived the pale hand of death spread over his countenance, and waited the result. with the utmost anxiety; by degrees the crimson blush of returning life, became perceptible, and I addressed him-"Jamieson," said I, as I covered him with his cloak, "I see it is quite impossible for you to proceed farther, in your present situation; and as I cannot be of the slightest assistance to you, I will hasten to pursue the paths of our companions and solicit their return, that, even upon a litter, you may be conveyed to Maturin. He was unable to speak, but looked upon me with a countenance beaming with affection, and as he grasped me warmly by the hand, made a sign, that, ere my return, he should be no more. I left him; and alone, weary and dispirited, pursued the footsteps of my companions; but losing every trace, I feared that I had mistaken the path,

and stopping, called aloud in hopes of catching their attention, and arresting their progress. Musing, as I crawled along, forlorn and dejected, 1 ascended an elevated ground at some distance, hoping to obtain an extended view, but there was none;-the intricate mazes of the forest were the only objects that were visible. I descended, and was soon delighted at having accidentally regained the path. In a short time a fire was observable at some distance. Emerging from the wood, I recognized around it my friendly Indians, and rushing forward, informed them of what I feared might be the fate of my comrade. I urged them, with tears, to commisserate his forlorn condition, and return to his assistance, but they were inexorable; making signs that, when somewhat refreshed by repose, he would follow me. This opinion was correct, for after some time, I heard his voice echoing in the distance, and ere long he joined us. We met as friends who had long been separated, and reflecting upon his state when we parted, I was induced to augur a favorable termination to our journey. Cheered by the enlivening blaze before us, and the hilarity of our companions, we would have now felt tolerably comfortable, had not the pangs of hunger assailed us, for we had tasted nothing throughout the day, save a few berries picked up in the woods; and our total ignorance of the road we had yet to compass ere we reached Maturin, About midnight the Indians and we betook ourselves to rest upon the

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long grass. The rain was incessant, and the Musquitoes in active operation; yet such was our fatigue that we slept some hours, unmindful of surrounding dangers, and unannoyed by the bites of our troublesome visitants.

17th-Awaking from our cheerless couch, the day served but to shew us the horrors of our situation; buckling on our knapsacks we proceeded on our march. The forest from which we had emerged on the preceding night, still skirting the path over the plain, which we now crossed; the grass was long and thin, having a dry and sour appearance; the soil dry, and somewhat sandy. As we traversed this vast plain, our solitary reveries were uninterrupted; the mind of Jamieson, in unison with my own, seemed absorbed in gloomy anticipations, or occupied with a retrospective glance at past endurances. A pad which we followed was our only guide; and our prospect, for a distance of some miles, was only bounded by the forest with which the plain was surrounded; and the view of which was occasionally interrupted by the interference of a small cluster of trees, agreeably dispersed over its surface.

Our journey, on the preceding day, through the woods, was accompanied with incessant rains, and our progress interrupted by rivers of various sizes, eleven of which we crossed in the course of the march; but our circumstances on this day were equally unpleasant, and formed a perfect contrast with those of the foregoing. As we

crossed the plain, the heat of the sun was excessive, the deep, miry, and almost impassable road of yesterday, was exchanged for a dry sandy heath, and the thirst which accompanied our fatigue, was becoming insupportable, without the means of quenching it within our reach. As I reflected upon the peculiarity of my state I could not but exclaim in participation with the sufferings of a sacred penman, "In journeyings often, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils among false brethren, in perils in the sea; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness."

Having continued our walk for about three hours, we came to a circumscribed space, from the surface of which the grass had been burned, as if by a recent fire kindled by a travelling party of natives. In this idea we were confirmed by perceiving some scattered fragments of cassava bread, which we hastily collected and devoured with avidity; and, in truth, this was the first morsel of any thing like food, we had swallowed for many days. Conceiving that this spot would be deserted by the Musquitoes, we unbuckled our knapsacks and seated ourselves, to recruit our exhausted strength. Here we held a mournful consultation as to the distance we had yet to travel, not a little invigorated by the hope that