35* STUDIES OF KATURE. 



crown. Thus, for the fécond time, did I owe my 

 Hfe to the women of Gaul. 



The King, taking me in his arms, faid to me : 

 " What, is it you, unhappy flranger, whom Ce- 

 " phas has been inceffantly regretting ! Oh, ye 

 " Gods, the enemies of my Country, do you fend 

 " benefaftors hither, only that they may be im- 

 *' molated." Then, addreffing himfelf to the 

 Chiefs of the Nations, he fpoke to them,, with fo 

 much energy, of the rights of humanity, that, 

 with one accord, they all fwore, that they would 

 never more reduce to flavery thofe whom the tern- 

 pefts might cad upon their fhores ; never to facri- 

 fice, in future, any one innocent man, and to offer 

 to Mars only the blood of the criminal. Tor-Tir, 

 in a rage, endeavoured, in vain, to oppofe this 

 law : he retired, menacing the King, and all the 

 Gauls, with the approaching vengeance of the 

 Gods. 



Neverthelefs, the King, accompanied by my 

 friend, conduced me, amidft the acclamations of 

 the People, into his city, which was fituated in the 

 neighbouring ifland.- Till the moment oF our ar- 

 rival in this ifland, I had been fo much difcom- 

 pofcd, that I was incapable of a lingle rational re- 

 'fiedion. Every fpecies of new reprefentation of 



my 



