catastrophe. They soon found many mangled bodies of those who had been overwhelmed by the falling of their houses, or blown with violence against a wall, tree, or roek. However, they relieved many who had escaped by being sheltered by rocks, trees, bushes, &e.
When the survivors were eollected, who were all more or less maimed, they consulted where shelter eould be obtained during the night, as all their habitations were overturned, and the materials of whieh they were eomposed dispersed in all directions. While eonsulting about this matter, a young man, who lived a few miles higher up the country, joined their eompany with the joyful intelligenee that several houses in his neighbourhood remained entire; to these the eompany went, taking along with them their cask of flour, whieh was all they had saved of their property. The believers in Jesus, when they assembled for worship in the evening, expressed great thankfulness to God that they had a treasure in heaven whieh no storm nor carthquake eould possibly reaeh. They now understood what I meant when I told them that riehes sometimes took to themselves wings and flew away; also that the Lord sometimes gave and then took away, and that even then they should say, Blessed be the name of the Lord.
During the confusion and bustle occasioned by the disasters which had happened, I was frequently left to lie carelessly on the floor. When in this situation, one morning, a little boy took me up in his arms, carried me to a little distanee from the house, and hid me under the root of a large old tree. The boy being taken that afternoon to a distant part of the island, none remained to diseover to my sorrowful friends the plaee of my concealment; eonsequently, many a fruitless seareh was mado for me. There I lay speeehless for near twelve months, when an old blaek slave, upon a journey, happened to lie down under the shade of the tree, to rest his weary limbs. Awaking from a comfortable sleep, while in the aet of stretehing himself, his hands, whieh were extended beyond my head, happened to touch my eovering, whieh eaused him to seareh under the root, when he found me half immersed in sand. He called at the first house he came to, and inquired if any of the family knew me, assuring them he wished to restore me to my proper owner; but they honestly deelared that they did not know me; so I went forward with the old slave. This slave had been taught my language when first brought to the West Indies; and, therefore, though he had never met with me, or any who spoke on the subjects that I did, yet he could eonverse with me tolerably well.
