Thus being in doubt, we prayed God to direct us, and to put it into our hearts which way to take.

Then after a Consultation between our selves, all things considered, we concluded it the best course to go back to Malwat oyah, the River we had well viewed that lay in our way as we came hither.

And back thither we resolved to repair.
CHAP.

X.
The Author's Progress in his Flight from Anarodgburro, into the Woods, unto their arrival in the Malabars Countrey.
[They depart back again towards the River.] Now God of his Mercy having prospered our Design hitherto, for which we blessed his Holy Name, our next care was how to come off clear from the People of Anarodgburro, that they might not presently miss us, and so pursue after us.

Which if they should do, there would have been no escaping them.