The Correspondents for the Indian Mission having directed Brainerd, as we have stated, to remove from Kaunaumeek, where he spent the first year of his missionary labours, he took leave of his Indians on the 29th of April, and set forward on a journey to his original destination, among the Indians at the Forks of the Delaware.

Of his feelings during this journey he says:—

‘I spent much of my time, while riding, in prayer, that God would go with me to the Delaware. My heart was sometimes ready to sink with the thoughts of my work, and of going alone into the wilderness, I knew not where; but still it was comfortable to think, that others of God's children had wandered about in caves and dens of the earth; and that Abraham, when he went forth, went out, not knowing whither he went. Oh that I might follow after God!’

After crossing Hudson's River, he traversed the woods from that river to the Delaware, about a hundred miles through a desolate and frightful country, above New Jersey, where there were then very few habitations. In this journey he endured great hardships and fatigue.