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1771, fide the fell down at my feet, and twifted round | 
Uru my legs, fo that it was with difficulty that I could | 
difengage myfelf from her dying grafps. As _ 
two Indian men purfued this unfortunate victim, | 
I folicited very hard for her life; but the murder- | 
ers made no reply ull they had ftuck both their | 
fpears through her body, and transfixed her to | 
the ground. ‘They then looked me fternly in the | 
face, and began to ridicule me, by afking if I 
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wanted an Efquimaux wife; and paid not the 
{malleft regard to the fhrieks and agony of the > 
poor wretch, who was twining round their {pears 
like an eel! Indeed, after receiving much abufive 
language from them on the occafion, 1 was at 
length obliged to defire that they would be more 
expeditious in difpatching their victim out of her 
mifery, otherwife I fhould be obliged, out of pity, | 
to aflift in the friendly office af putting anendto — 
the exiftence of a fellow-creature who was fo cru- 
elly wounded. Qn this requeft being made, one | 
of the Indians haittily drew his fpear from the | 
place where it was firft lodged, and pierced it 
through her breaft near the heart. ‘The love of | 
life, however, even in this maft miferable ftate, 
was fo predominant, that though this might juft- 
ly be called the moft merciful act that could be 
done for the poor creature, it feemed to be un- 
welcome, for though much exhaufted by pain and 
lofs of blood, fhe made feveral efforts to ward off 
the friendly blow. My fituation and the terror 
ef my mind at beholding this butchery, cannot 
eafily 
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