This was the 29th.
The 30th was my well day, of course, and I went abroad with my gun, but did not care to travel too far.

I killed a sea-fowl or two, something like a brandgoose, and brought them home, but was not very forward to eat them; so I ate some more of the turtle's eggs, which were very good.
This evening I renewed the medicine, which I had supposed did me good the day before--the tobacco steeped in rum; only I did not take so much as before, nor did I chew any of the leaf, or hold my head over the smoke; however, I was not so well the next day, which was the first of July, as I hoped I should have been; for I had a little spice of the cold fit, but it was not much.
_July_ 2 .-- I renewed the medicine all the three ways; and dosed myself with it as at first, and doubled the quantity which I drank.
_July_ 3 .-- I missed the fit for good and all, though I did not recover my full strength for some weeks after.

While I was thus gathering strength, my thoughts ran exceedingly upon this Scripture, "I will deliver thee"; and the impossibility of my deliverance lay much upon my mind, in bar of my ever expecting it; but as I was discouraging myself with such thoughts, it occurred to my mind that I pored so much upon my deliverance from the main affliction, that I disregarded the deliverance I had received, and I was as it were made to ask myself such questions as these--viz.

Have I not been delivered, and wonderfully too, from sickness--from the most distressed condition that could be, and that was so frightful to me?
and what notice had I taken of it?
Had I done my part?
God had delivered me, but I had not glorified Him--that is to say, I had not owned and been thankful for that as a deliverance; and how could I expect greater deliverance?
This touched my heart very much; and immediately I knelt down and gave God thanks aloud for my recovery from my sickness.
_July_ 4 .-- In the morning I took the Bible; and beginning at the New Testament, I began seriously to read it, and imposed upon myself to read a while every morning and every night; not tying myself to the number of chapters, but long as my thoughts should engage me.

It was not long after I set seriously to this work till I found my heart more deeply and sincerely affected with the wickedness of my past life.