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became infupportable. Our number, 

 which was at firft 145, was now reduced 

 to TOO, and chiefly by famine, which 

 put the reft upon all fliifts and devices to 

 fupport themfelves. One day, when I 

 was at home in my hut with my Indian 

 dog, a party came to my door, and told 

 me their neceilities were fuch, that 

 they mufl eat the creature or ftarve. 

 Though their plea was urgent, I could 

 not help ufmg fome arguments to en- 

 deavour to diffuade them from killing 

 him, as his faithful fervices and fond- 



s 



nefs deferved it at my hands ; but, with- 

 out weighing my arguments, they took 

 him away by force and killed him ; up- 

 on which, thinking that I had at leaft as 

 good a right to a lhare as the reft, I fat 

 down with them, and partook of their 

 repaft. Three weeks after that I was glad 

 to make a meal of his paws and fkin, 

 which, upon recollecting the fpot 

 where they had killed him, I found 



thrown 



