44 TRAVELS through 



knowledge of feveral fimples, with which (he 

 had faved the lives of many of our fick. This 

 moving fight filled our people with grief and 

 horror. The favourite wife of the deceafed rofe 

 up, and fpoke to them with a fmiling countenance : 

 " I die without fear," faid fhe, " grief does not 

 •* embitter my laft hours, I recommend my 

 *' children to you ; whenever you fee them, 

 *^ noble Frenchmen, remember that you have 

 *' loved their father, and that he was till death 

 ^^ a true and fincere friend of your nation, whom 

 *' he loved more than himfelf. The difpofer of 

 *' life has been pleafed to call him, and I (hall 

 ** foon go and join him i I fhall tell him that I 

 " have feen your hearts moved at the fight of 

 " his corps : do not be grieved ♦, we fhall be 

 *' longer friends in the country of the fpirits than 

 *' here, becaufe we do nQt die there again *." 



Thefe words forced tears from the eyes of all 

 the French ; they were obliged to do all they 

 could to prevent the great Sun from killing him- 

 felf •, for he was inconfolable at the death of his 



brother, 



•^ At the hour intended for the ceremony, they made the 

 viflims fwallow little balls or pills of tobacco, in order to 

 make them giddy, and as it were to take the fenfation of 

 pain from them ; after that they were all flrangled, and put 

 upon mats, the favourite on the right, the other wife on the 

 left, and the others according to their rank. 



