me, and on the second day of my confinement my child was born but it lived
only two days. It was a girl: and notwithstanding the shortness of the
time that I possessed it, it was a great grief to me to lose it.

After the birth of my child, I was very sick, but was not allowed to go
into the house for two weeks; when, to my great joy, Sheninjee returned,
and I was taken in and as comfortably provided for as our situation would
admit of. My disease continued to increase for a number of days; and I
became so far reduced that my recovery was despaired of by my friends, and
I concluded that my troubles would soon be finished. At length, however,
my complaint took a favorable turn, and by the time that the corn was ripe
I was able to get about. I continued to gain my health, and in the fall
was able to go to our winter quarters, on the Sciota, with the Indians.

From that time, nothing remarkable occurred to me till the fourth winter
of my captivity, when I had a son born, while I was at Sciota: I had a
quick recovery, and my child was healthy. To commemorate the name of my
much lamented father, I called my son Thomas Jemison.



CHAPTER IV.


She leaves Wiishto for Fort Pitt, in company with her Husband.--Her
feelings on setting out.--Contrast between the labor of the white and
Indian Women.--Deficiency of Arts amongst the Indians.--Their former
Happiness.--Baneful effects of Civilization, and the introduction of
ardent Spirits amongst them, &c.--Journey up the River.--Murder of three
Traders by the Shawnees.--Her Husband stops at a Trading