disappointed, when at the close of the ceremony the company retired, and
my sisters went about employing every means for my consolation and comfort.

Being now settled and provided with a home, I was employed in nursing the
children, and doing light work about the house. Occasionally I was sent
out with the Indian hunters, when they went but a short distance, to help
them carry their game.

My situation was easy; I had no particular hardships to endure. But still,
the recollection of my parents, my brothers and sisters, my home, and my
own captivity, destroyed my happiness, and made me constantly solitary,
lonesome and gloomy.

My sisters would not allow me to speak English in their hearing; but
remembering the charge that my dear mother gave me at the time I left her,
whenever I chanced to be alone I made a business of repeating my prayer,
catechism, or something I had learned in order that I might not forget my
own language. By practising in that way I retained it till I came to
Genesee flats, where I soon became acquainted with English people with
whom I have been almost daily in the habit of conversing.

My sisters were diligent in teaching me their language; and to their great
satisfaction I soon learned so that I could understand it readily, and
speak it fluently. I was very fortunate in falling into their hands; for
they were kind good natured women; peaceable and mild in their
dispositions; temperate and decent in their habits, and very tender and
gentle towards me. I have great reason to respect them, though they have
been dead a great number of years.

The town where they lived was pleasantly situated on the Ohio, at the