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di Belk'IJle^ having no other company than his 

 dog^ looked about foT food every where. At 

 nighc he always made a little intrenchment at 

 the foot of a tree, in order to fhelter himfelf 

 againll the "^ild beafts. One day a tyger * 

 came near the place, whei*e he Ikpt •, his dog 

 watched by his fide, he faw the tyger, and ran 

 at it with a prodigious howl. M. de Belle-IJle 

 awoke^ and haftened to his afliilance •, the tyger 

 let the dog loofe, but had wounded him : his 

 mafter was obliged to kill him. left be (hould 

 turn mad, and afterwards he eat him. Then 

 being left alone in this defart pl^ce, he fell on 

 his knees, lifted up his hands to heaven, and 

 thanked the Almighty for preferving him tili 

 |iow i and refigning himfelf to Providence he 

 Went into the country in order to feek for men* 

 He foon found foot-ileps, and followed them 

 to the banks of a river, where finding a pirngufr^ 

 he crofles the river in it. On the oppofite ihorc 

 were feme Indians^ drying human flefh and filh ; 

 they were of the nation of the Jitakapas -\- ^^ 

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'■■ By this mail always be linderllood the Anntitcn tyger, 

 1. e. the bro-jon cat of P. Spiop/ts of ^ad. p. 179, and the 

 Cugacuara of Pijo and Margra^ve in their Nat. Hijl. Brajll. 



t This name fignifies men-eaters among the A?nericav na- 

 tions. 



