As we were likely to remain here some time (at least till the return of those who had been dispatched in quest of provision) I solicited and was so fortunate as to be allowed the privilege of another interview with my poor unfortunate husband. I found him laboring under a still greater depression of spirits, than when I last had the privilege of conversing with him--he said that every hour now seemed to throw a deeper gloom over his fate, and that nature could not possibly hold out but a short time longer! and indeed, that such was the state of wretchedness to which he was reduced, that (as regarded himself) death was stripped of all its terrors: I once more reminded him of the power of the Almighty to relieve us, and of the necessity of relying on his mercy, that through his divine goodness, we ought to be thankful that our lives had been so long miraculously preserved--that although our afflictions had been very great, and might still be even greater, yet the Lord was able to support us and might in proper season be pleased effect our deliverance: as he had declared to us in Psalms 6, 15.⚫ "And call upon me in the day of trouble, I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me."

My husband now informed me, that his suspicions that we were to be seperated and conveyed to different parts of the desert without a prospect of seeing each other again, had been confirmed by the declaration of the chief of the clan, with whom he had had much conversation respecting our future desti-