allowing mothers time to suckle their chil- dren. The road was cxceeding bad, leading through a contin- uance of swamps. Sister Zeisberger fell twice from her horse, dragged for some time; bat assistance was soon at hand, and the Lord preserved her Some of the believing Indians followed them as possible, but with all their exertions did not overtake wild, and not even and once, hanging in the stirrup, was from harm fast as them till night."

For one month these unfortunate people journeyed through When they reached the Saudusky Creck the savages left them to take care of themselves as best wcre over a hundred miles from their homes, "in a wilderness where there was neither gamo nor pro- Here they built hnts of logs and bark. They had neither beds nor blankets. In fact, the only things which the savages had left them were their utensils for making maple It was the middle of October when they reached San dusky. Already it was cold, and the winter was drawing In November Governor De Peyster, the English commander at Fort Detroit, summoned the missionaries to appear before him the wilds in this way. they might. They visions." sugar ncar and refate the aecusations brought against their eongregations of having aided and abetted the colonies.

The missionarics answered that they doubted not in the least but that very evil reports must have reached his ears, as the treatment they had met with had sufficicntly proved that they were considered as guilty persons, but that these reports were false. That Cougress, indeed, knew that they were employed them in their labors; but had never in auything given them directions how to proceed."

The governor, convineed of the innocence and single-hcart- edness of these noble men, publicly declared that "he felt great as missionaries to the Indians, and did not distnrb satisfaetion in their endeavors to civilize and Christianize the Indians, and would permit them to return to their congrega