Occasionally the log cabin of some poor emigrant was found in the vast expanse.

David, too proud to beg, when he had any money with which to pay, found his purse empty when he had accomplished this small portion of his journey.
In this emergence, he hired out to work for a man a month for five dollars, which was at the rate of about one shilling a day.

Faithfully he fulfilled his contract, and then, rather dreading to return home, entered into an engagement with a hatter, Elijah Griffith, to work in his shop for four years.

Here he worked diligently eighteen months without receiving any pay.

His employer then failed, broke up, and left the country.