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stomach better, for I was hungry; and, in short, I had no fit the
next day, but continued much altered for the better. This was
the 29th.

The 30th was my well-day, of course, and I went abroad with
my gun, but did not care to travel too far. I killeda sea-fowl or
two, something like a brand-goose, and brought them home, but
was not very forward to eat them; so I ate some more of the
turtle’s eggs, which were very good. This evening I renewed the
medicine which I had supposed did me good the day before—
namely, the tobacco steeped in rum; only I did not take so much
as before, nor did I chew any of the leaf, or hold my head over the
smoke. However, I was not so well the next day, which was the
Ist. of July, as-I hoped I should have been; for I had a little
spice of the cold fit, but it was not much.

July 2. I renewed the medicine all the three ways, and dozed
myself with it as at first; and doubled the quantity which I
drank.

July 8. I missed the fit for good and all, though I did not
recover my full strength for some weeks after. While I was thus
gathering strength my thoughts ran exceedingly upon this scrip-
ture, “I will deliver thee;”’ and the impossibility of my deliver-
ance lay much upon my mind in bar of my ever expecting it. But
as I was discouraging myself with such thoughts it occurred to my
mind that I pored so much upon my deliverance from the main
affliction that I disregarded the deliverance I had received; and I
was, as it were, made to ask myself such questions as these—
namely, Have I not been delivered, and wonderfully too, from
sickness—from the most distressed condition that could be, and
that was so frightful to me? And what notice I had taken of it :
Had I done my part? God had delivered me, but I had not
glorified him; that is to say, I had not owned and been thankful
for that as a deliverance. And how could I expect greater deliver-
ance ?

This touched my heart very much, and immediately I kneeled
down and gave God thanks aloud for my recovery from my sick-
ness.