With these fearful apprehensions, caution dictated me not to proceed far by day-light in this slaveholding city.
At this moment every nerve and muscle of my whole system was in full stretch; and every facility of the mind brought into action striving to save myself from being re-captured.

I dared not go to the forest, knowing that I might be tracked by blood-hounds, and overtaken.

I was so fortunate as to find a hiding place in the city which seemed to be pointed out by the finger of Providence.

After running across lots, turning corners, and shunning my fellow men, as if they were wild ferocious beasts.

I found a hiding place in a pile of boards or scantling, where I kept concealed during that day.
No tongue nor pen can describe the dreadful apprehensions under which I labored for the space of ten or twelve hours.