buy them. Finally, ſhe left them at Tangier; there they be, ſo many as live, or are born there. An Engliſhman, a maſon, came thence to Boſton, he told me they deſired I would uſe ſome means for their return home. I know not what to do in it; but now it is in my heart to move your honour, ſo to meditate, that they may have leave to get home, either from thence hither, or from thence to England, and ſo to get home. If the Lord ſhall pleaſe to move your charitable heart herein, I ſhall be obliged in great thankfulneſs, and am perſuaded that Chriſt will, at the great day, reckon it among your deeds of charity done unto them, for his name's ſake." M. H. S. Coll., iii., 183.
Cotton Mather furniſhes another extract appropriate in this connection.
"Moreover, 'tis a Propheſy in Deut. 28, 68. The Lord ſhall bring thee into Egypt again with ſhips, by the way whereof I ſpake unto thee. Thou shalt ſee it no more again; and there ſhall ye be ſold unto your Enemies, and no Man ſhall buy you. This did. our Eliot imagine accompliſhed, when the Captives taken by us in our late Wars upon them, were ſent to be ſold, in the Coaſts lying not very remote from Egypt on the Mediterranean Sea, and ſcarce any Chapmen would offer to take them off." Mather's Magnalia, Book iii., Part iii.
Mr. Everett, in one of the moſt elaborate of his finiſhed and beautiful orations, has narrated the ſtory of two of the laſt captives in that famous war, in a paſſage of furpaſſing eloquence which we venture to quote:
"Preſident Mather, in relating the encounter of
