aforesaid; and on Monday they set their wigwams on fire, and
away they went. On that very day came the English army after
them to this river, and saw the smoke of their wigwams, and yet
this river put a stop to them. God did not give them courage or
activity to go over after us. We were not ready for so great a
mercy as victory and deliverance. If we had been God would have
found out a way for the English to have passed this river, as
well as for the Indians with their squaws and children, and all
their luggage. "Oh that my people had hearkened to me, and
Israel had walked in my ways, I should soon have subdued their
enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries" (Psalm
81.13-14).


The Sixth Remove

On Monday (as I said) they set their wigwams on fire and went
away. It was a cold morning, and before us there was a great
brook with ice on it; some waded through it, up to the knees and
higher, but others went till they came to a beaver dam, and I
amongst them, where through the good providence of God, I did
not wet my foot. I went along that day mourning and lamenting,
leaving farther my own country, and traveling into a vast and
howling wilderness, and I understood something of Lot's wife's
temptation, when she looked back. We came that day to a great
swamp, by the side of which we took up our lodging that night.
When I came to the brow of the hill, that looked toward the
swamp, I thought we had been come to a great Indian town (though
there were none but our own company). The Indians were as thick
as the trees: it seemed as if there had been a thousand