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To the Editor of the Methodist Magazine. Dear Sir, I beg to offer the following remarkable instance of the inter position of Divine Providence, which took place in North America, in 1813, for insertion in your Magazine, I am, dear Sir, your faithful servant, J. H. Mantey. On the banks of the York river in North America, and three miles from its entrance, is situated the Hudson’s Bay Factory, at which place a party of Englishmen reside, who, during autumn, winter, and spring, are employed in collecting furs, ivory, c. from the various tribes of Indians that inhabit the adjacent forests, on behalf of the Hudson’s Bay Company, and during the sum mer in embarking the same on board merchant ships, sent thither for the purpose of transporting such articles of commerce to England. When the Indians neglect to bring their commodities for barter to the factory, which they are often prevented from doing by their engagements in war, and other casualties, it is customary for a party of our countrymen, accompanied by an Indian guide, to go up the various branches of the York in search of them, and there being numerous cataracts and shoal places to pass in that river, it can only be effected by means of a canoe, which is easily carried by two men up the sides of the falls, or along the banks of the stream, which, from its shallowness is impassable. It was on such an occasion that a party, consisting of six men, after having toiled all day against the current, retired in the evening to the shore, and having pitched their tent, (as is cus tomary,) on the skirt of a forest, were regaling themselves around a fire that they had kindled, when their mirth was suddenly turned into alarm, by a black she bear, which, rushing from the adjacent wood, seized one of the men with her fore paws, and attempted to bear him away, at the same time roaring and squeezing her captive in a dreadful manner. On this, the rest of the party regaining their fire-arms, which had been deposited at a short distance, pursued, and would have easily destroyed the bear, but that they feared killing the unhappy man, who was boldly struggling in her embrace, and who, on observing them to hesitate, implored them, as they valued his life, to fire. One of the party did so, and wounded the bear; whereupon she in stantly let go her hold, and pursuing, fastened on her new ad versary, and seemed bent on his destruction; when, on a sudden, she fell backward and expired. On being opened, it was dis-
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Methodist Magazine
London, Middlesex, GB
Mon, Feb 01, 1819
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