to run away.
This Invasion happening so unexpectedly and our remove so sudden, I was forced to leave behind me that little Estate which God had given me, lying scattered abroad in Betel-nuts, the great Commodity of that Countrey, which I was then parting from: and much ado I had to get my Cloths brought along with me, the Enemies, as they called them, but my Friends being so near.

And thus was I carried out of this Countrey as poor as I came into it, leaving all the fruits of my Labour and Industry behind me.

Which called to my remembrance the words of Job.

Naked came I into this world, and naked shall I return: God gave and God hath taken away, blessed be the Name of the Lord.
[Settled in a dismal place.] We all four were brought up together into a Town on the top of a Mountain called Laggendenny.

Where I and my dear Friend and fellow Prisoner, and fellow Batchelor Mr.John Loveland lived together in one House.