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in going out, and a valuable female friend who was a fellow labourer in the work - going to reside with them. and they had but 3 horses On the 3rd day about noon they arrived at John Bells in Kings settlement.-- She says, John’s wife seeing us, (tho' we were strangers to each other) yet she came running to meet us with her cheeks bedew'd with tears. - The joy was mu- -tual. -- How consolating the sight of a friend after so fatigueing a journey; having been more than two days and nights in the wil- derness, since we left the last house. -- Altho the journey has been trying yet I felt some- thing so animating and encouraging to revive, and my heart was fill’d with so precious a sweetness, that it was a full com- pensation for our most trying seasons. Ah may I abide in the patience, with my eye single to Him, who knows what is best for us. -- On the eighteenth day after leaving home they arived safe and in good health at Tunesassah, the place of their destination. ---- The next day