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" cuftom of condemning to llavery thofe who en- 

 " dure that calamity, would not have been abo- 

 'Mifhed; and, if you had not been condemned 

 " to be facrificed, I fhould, mod probably, never 

 *' have feen you more, and the blood of the inno- 

 ** cent would ftill have fmoked upon the altars of 

 « the God of War." 



Thus fpake Cephas. As for the King, he omit- 

 ted nothing which he thought would tend to make 

 me lofe the recolleélion of my misfortunes. He 

 was called Bardus, He was already confiderably 

 advanced in years, and he wore, according to the 

 cuftom of his people, his beard and hair very 

 long. His palace vvas built of the trunks of firs, 

 laid in rows one upon another. It had no other 

 door (20), except large bullocks hides, which 

 clofe up the apertures. No perfon was there, on 

 guard, for he had nothing to fear from his fub- 

 jeds ; but he had employed all his fkill and in- 

 duftry, to fortify his city againft enemies from 

 without. He had furrounded it with walls, formed 

 of the trunks of trees, intermixed with fods of 

 turf, with towers of ftone at the angles, and at the 

 gates. Sentinels were ftationed on the top of thefe 

 towers, who watched day and night. King Bardus 

 had received this ifland from the nymph Lutetia, 

 his mother, and it bore her name. It vvas, at firft, 

 covered with nothing but trees, and Bardus had 

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