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knowing that hunger and necessity are bound by no laws of honour, he took
the liberty of borrowing the jolly cake, powell, and a leg of fine pork,
then hastened back to the tree with his booty. What the people thought
when they returned at night with good appetites, and found their dainty
omani, their jolly cake, and their pork, all vanished, we know not, but
suppose they were not a little surprised.

Being thus stocked with provisions, he made the best of his way to
Ogle-town that night, and so to Old-town. In the dawn of the morning of
the eleventh day, he came in sight of Duck's Creek; but being afraid he
might fall into the hands of his pursuers, he struck a great way into the
woods towards Tuck Hoe; where staying all the day in a tree, he came
again in the middle of the night to Duck's Creek. As soon as he came
here, he ran to the water side to seek for a canoe, but found them all
chained; he immediately set himself about breaking the chain, but found
it too strong, and all endeavours to break it were in vain. Never was
man more thunder-struck than he was now, just at the time when he
expected to be out of danger, to meet with so unforeseen and
insurmountable an obstacle. He knew there was no way of escaping, but by
passing the river Delaware, and could not think of a method of effecting
it. Several hours did he pass in this agitation of mind: sometimes he
had a mind to try his strength in swimming, but the river being so wide,
he thought he could not reach the opposite shore; at last, reflecting
what one of his ancestors had done in swimming a horse over Teignmouth
bar, and seeing some horses grazing thereabout, he resolved to attempt
passing the Delaware in that manner; for, let the worst happen, he
thought death preferable to slavery. Being thus resolved, he soon caught
one of the horses, and, making a sort of bridle with his handkerchief,
brought the horse to the water side; he walked for some time on the
banks, looking for a proper place to enter the horse: at last, espying a
little stream, which ran into the great river Deleware, he stripped
himself, and, tying his frock and trowsers about his shoulders, mounted
the horse, and putting him forward a little, the horse soon lost his
footing, and the water came up to Mr. Carew's middle, who kept his legs
as near as possible to the horse, and in this manner launched into the
great river Delaware.

The horse snorted and neighed to his companions, but mad