When Jerry and I expressed our apprehensions, after we had been some days on board, and were beginning to get very tired of being cramped up, the answer of Cousin Silas rebuked us,--"Trust in Providence, my lads-- on the arm of Him who has already preserved us from so many dangers.  He would not have sent this canoe full of Christian men to us, unless for some good object."  Jerry and I felt that Cousin Silas spoke the truth, and we made no further complaints.