have come, and were no sooner answered but
the wind came fair again. When we toiled in the open sea with cross
winds and tempests, driven near to our own coast back again, God
sent us then fair weather and a good gale for our voyage. How was He
pleased to bring us so very near great danger on the Riff, and then
bring us safe off from it and hold on our course again!

"When we were in no small danger in the tempestuous seas on the back
of the Skaw, when the anchors dragged a league in one night with the
storm, and every moment _we_ expected to be devoured by the raging
waves, there the Lord was also our deliverer; as He also was upon
the rocky coast of Norway and in the difficult passage to the
harbour of Gothenburg. Throughout our voyage the providence of God
watched over us and protected us. Thus did He in our land journey,
where the extreme hardships we were put unto are sufficiently known
to all of us, and will to our life's end be felt by some of us.

"My particular preservation was wonderful from an intended
assassination by one who thrust himself into my company to have the
better opportunity to execute it; but, overcome with kindness, his
heart relented, and he forsook his purpose and my company.

"If the snow had fallen (as in other years) in the time of our
travel, we could not have passed our journey; but He who rules the
heavens and the earth restrained it till we came within half a day
of our journey's end, and in safety He conducted us to Upsal. The
same Providence kept us there, and when some of our company were
sick and hurt, restored health again.

"It was marvellous and unexpected, that in a foreign country, at
such a distance from friends and acquaintance, God should raise us
up friends out of strangers, namely the Queen, foreign ministers,
and great officers, in whose sight we found wonderful favour, to our
preservation under God and a great means of effecting what we came
about, maugre the labours and designs of our enemies against it, and
their plots and attempts for our destruction, had not our Rock of
Defence secured us.

"I should detain you very long, though I hope it would not be
thought too long, to recite all our remarkable mercies; and it is an
excellent thing that they are so numerous. We are now coming
homewards. How did our God preserve us ov