ndisturbed. But
one day as I sat as usual vacantly looking out to sea, I was disturbed
by the cries of a child. The babies, although there were four or five in
the party, were usually so quiet that the sound surprised me. I looked
round, and saw the women gathered together in a group, consulting over
the child, which still cried as if in violent pain. At last I got up,
and went to the place, where I found that the poor little creature, a
girl of about a year old, had fallen down a hatchway and broken her arm.
She had lost her mother in England, and was in the care of an elder
sister, who hung over her in the greatest distress, while the other
women were preparing to bandage the arm. I had had no idea till then how
wretchedly these poor creatures were huddled together, without even such
comforts as they were used to; but when I found that it was impossible
for the sick child to be cared for in the miserable place where they
lived, I began to come to myself a little, or rather to forget myself,
and contrive something to help others.

"The child's sister, Mary, spoke a little French, so that we could
manage to understand each other; and with shawls and pillows, we made a
comfortable little bed, in an unoccupied space close to my cabin. There
we nursed the poor little creature, which got well wonderfully soon, and
Mary became my firm and faithful friend. It was she whom you saw a few
weeks ago, when she came, hoping to bring me a useful warning.

"We were six weeks at sea; and when we reached Quebec, and had to take
the steamboats, a new kind of misery began for me. I shrank from the
sight of our fellow-passengers, for I felt that wherever we went, they
looked at me curiously, and sometimes I heard remarks and speculations,
which seemed to carry the sense of degradation to my very heart. But
Mary and her little sister had done me good. I had already lost some of
my pride, and began to remember that, however I might repent my
marriage, I had entered into it of my own will, and could not now free
myself either from its ties or duties. My husband seemed pleased with
my change of manner towards him; he was not unkind, and I hoped that
perhaps when we reached his own tribe, and I had a home to care for, my
life might not yet be so hopelessly wretched as it appeared at first.

"The last part of our journey was made in waggons. When we were within a
few hours' distance of Moose Island the others went on, while Bailey,
Christian,