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they gave it to me among the first, although they never forgot to replace the cord around my hands, feet and over my body at night, for fear, they said, that God might inspire me to escape, and the they would not have the advantage and the glory of leading me to their village. I had, however, no thought of fleeing, and I much preferred to die at Onneida - had God so willed it - than at any other place in the world, for it was my old mission place.

They did not put any burdens upon me during the journey