this, our wonderful deliverance, while on the very brink of starvation, was to me another proof of the mercy and goodness of God, and that with us in the present instance he had eminently fulfilled the word contained in Psalms cvi. 46: "He made them also to be pitied of all those who carried them captives."

While we were devouring the food allotted us, the Arabs were employed in cutting up and roasting the carcase: which done, they, like ravenous wolves, devoured more than one half of it, and the remainder deposited in their bags slung upon their camels. Preparations were now made for our departure. I begged of my master to indulge me with the privilege of conversing a few moments with my husband, before we resumed our journey, as he had informed me, in a few words the evening previous, that he had something important to communicate; after a good deal of persuasion the indulgence was granted me, and my husband having begged the same indulgence and obtained the same liberty of his master, we were permitted to seat ourselves in one corner of the tent to converse. My husband now informed me that by what he could learn from the Arabs, (as they were of different clans,) we were soon to be seperated and conveyed to different parts of the country, and retained as captives, until they could have an opportunity to dispose of us to some of their brethren bound to the capital of Morocco, where an English consul resided,