'Edmunds, however, had been sent a considerable distance up the country on his arrival at the settlement;and to this circumstance, perhaps, may be attributed the fact, that though several letters were despatched,none of them ever reached my hands. He remained in the same place during the whole fourteen years.At the expiration of the term, steadily adhering to his old resolution and the pledge he gave his mother, he made his way back to England amidst innumerable difficulties, and returned, on foot, to his native place.