without the least injury or danger: but it was not with the same luck we went back, for as we were passing through a dark Wood, (_it was then between ten and eleven o'Clock at night_,) a shower of musket balls were fired at us, which unexpected noise and hissing, so much frighted our horses, that it was impossible for us to lead them; they rushed through brambles and briers, and at last plunged into a dead Lake, where we had like to have been drowned; but our horses being stout animals, they swam and gained the other side in a few minutes. We made the best of our way through woods and thickets to escape the fury of the balls which were continually flying about us, and after having wandered a great while through unpracticable places, we found again the road, and rode as fast as we could to the Town: since that affair I have been in many obstinate and bloody engagements. [19] Oh! reader consider and meditate? see how GOD was pleased to spare such a rebellious Creature as I; and how Divine Providence distinguished itself by calling me alone, though I, with obstinacy refused to comply to its orders: but who can resist the power of the LORD when he says, I will and they shall, &c. "Oh! bless the LORD O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name: for the LORD has done wondrous things. He has lifted me up, and has not made my foes to rejoice over me." One day as I was reading the news-paper, I heard that _St. Domingo_ was in a state of tranquillity; at this I was determined to go thither: accordingly, I went on board a Ship that was going there; we went first to _St. Thomas_, to take some passengers, and for my dear Country we sailed, and arrived safe there. My first inquiry was my Mother; I was about two days rambling through the streets without hearing any tidings respecting her or any other relations; till at last peradventure I met with one of my Cousins that was in _France_ at the time I left that Country; she took me to her house and entertained me with loving kindnesses; and told me that my Mother was in the Spanish part of _St. Domingo_, at the distance of sixty miles from the place where I then was.