e for the
opposite shore with all the strength he could. Mr. Carew did not imagine
the horse would be able to reach it, but proposed to save himself by
swimming when the horse failed, for the river was three miles over:
however the horse reached the shore, but finding no place to land, it
being a sandy mud, he was obliged to swim him along the shore, till he
came to a little creek, which the horse swimming into, soon got sure
footing, to the great joy of Mr. Carew, who, dismounting, kissed the
horse, telling him he must now turn quaker as well as himself, and so let
him go into the woods.

His clothes were not very wet; however, he staid on the banks some time
to dry them with the morning sun, then went up into the country. The
first house he came to was a miller's, whose wife came out and asked him
from whence he came? He told her he had been a prisoner some time in the
Havannah, from whence he had been released by an exchange of prisoners,
and was now going home.

The good woman pitied him much, and told him he looked very melancholy;
but her husband coming in, said, he believed he was an Irishman. This he
denied, averring he was of the West of England; so they gave him a piece
of that country money, and a mug of rum, which he drinking greedily,
being very thirsty, it threw him into such a violent fever, that he was
obliged to stop at a neighbouring house, where he lay sick for three or
four days. From hence he went to Newcastle, where he raised
contributions from several gentlemen, as he had done before, but not
under the former name, from hence to Castle, Brandywine Ferry, Chester,
and Derby, where he got relief from the same miller that Mr. Whitfield
was with when he was there before, and lodged at the same house, but took
care to disguise himself so as not to be known: he there got a pass from
the justice as a sick man bound to Boston. From hence he proceeded to
Brunswick, where he got relief from Mr. Matthews, the miller, who treated
him so hospitably the first time he was there, but did not know him again
now.

From hence he proceeded to New London, where he chanced to see the
captain who had taken him home before, but he avoided him. From New
London he proceeded to Groten, where he got a twenty-shilling bill from
one Mr. Goyf, and several half-crown bills from other people. He then
inquired of his landlord his way to Rhode-island, who accompanied him
about two miles of the way, when they chanced to f