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ged me along, in a (late of ftupefadion, in the 

 fame manner as wolves would carry off a flieep. 

 They conducted me acrofs the foreft to the very 

 borders of the Seine : there, their Chief fprinkled 

 me with the water of the river ; he then made me 

 enter a large boat, conftrudied of the bark of the 

 birch-tree, into which he likewife embarked with 

 all his train. 



We failed up the Seine for eight days together, 

 during which all kept a profound filence. On 

 the ninth, we arrived at a little town, built in the 

 middle of an ifland. They here made me difem- 

 bark on the oppofite fliore, on the right hand bank 

 of the river, and they conduced me into a large 

 hut, without windows, which was illuminated by 

 torches of fir. They tied me to a flake, in the 

 middle of the hut, and thofe young men, who 

 watched over me night and day, armed widi hat- 

 chets of flint, never ceafed to dance around me, 

 blov/ing, with all their ffcrength, through the bulls' 

 horns and iron pipes. They accompanied this de- 

 teftable mufic with thefe horrible words, which 

 they fung in chorus. 



<* Oh, Ni order! Oh, Rijîindi ! Oh, Svidrer ! 

 *' Oh, He/a ! Oh, He/a ! God of Carnage and of 

 " Storms, we bring thee flefli. Receive the blood 



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