t there for several
hours, tho very uneasily, and all in mud and wet. But however it did
greatly comfort us in the fright and amazement we were in.

[They get safely over this Danger.] So soon as it began to grow dark,
we came creeping out of our hollow Tree, and put for it as fast as our
Legs could carry us. And then we crossed that great Road, which all the
day before we did expect to come up with, keeping close by the River
side, and going so long till dark Night stopped us. We kept going the
longer, because we heard the Voice of Men hollowing towards Evening:
which created us a fresh disturbance, thinking them to be People that
were coming to chace us. But at length we heard Elephants behind us,
between us and the Voice, which we knew by the noise of cracking the
Boughs and small Trees, which they break down and eat. These Elephants
were a very good Guard behind us, and were methought like the Darkness
that came between Israel and the Egyptians. For the People we knew
would not dare to go forwards hearing Elephants before them.

[They dress Meat and lay down to sleep.] In this Security we pitched
our Tents by the River side, and boiled Rice and roasted flesh for our
Supper, for we were very hungry, and so commending our selves to God's
keeping laid down to sleep. The Voice which we heard still continued,
which lasting so long we knew what it meant; it was nothing but the
hollowing of People that lay to watch the Corn Fields, to scare away
the wild Beasts out of their Corn. Thus we past Monday.

[They fear wild Men, which these Woods abound with.] But nevertheless
next Morning so soon as the Moon shone out bright, to prevent the
worst we took up our Packs, and were gone: being past all the tame
Inhabitants with whom we had no more trouble. But the next day we
feared we should come among the wild ones; for these Woods are full of
them. Of these we were as much afraid as of the other. For they would
have carried us back to the King, where we should be kept Prisoners,
but these we feared would have shot us, not standing to hear us plead
for our selves.

[They meet with many of their Tents.] And indeed all along as we went,
by the sides of the River till we came to the Malabar Inhabitants,
had been the Tents of wild Men, made only of Boughs of Trees. But God
be praised, they were all gone, tho but very lately before we came:
as we perceived by the Bones of Cattle, and shells of Fruit, which
lay scattered about. We su