The former fancied that, now we had come, all their troubles would be over.  They had, however, passed a sad and anxious time; the missionary who had accompanied my father, with his wife and two children, had died, as had several of the Christian Indians, while some hundreds of the wild Indians had been swept off by the fearful pestilence.  The latter had gone away south during the winter, and it was supposed that they would not return till the spring.