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cil, in which they refolved that it wonld be 

 fhameful and cowardly to kill a man, that did 

 not come to them to do any harm, but to de- 

 mand their holpitality •, in confequence of this 

 refolution, he remained a flave of the widow. 

 The fir ft days of his flavery, though it was not 

 a heavy one, were very difagreeable to him, be- 

 cauie he was oblio-ed to take care of the little 

 children of thele men-eaters, and to carry them 

 on his fhoulder^, which was very troublefome to 

 him -, for he was naked like them, having no 

 more deaths than were fufHcient to make his 

 nakednefs lefs indecent ; but the widow above- 

 mentioned, having taken him under her protec- 

 tion, he was better treated in the fequeh 



As M. de Bell-I/Ie was young and flrong, he 

 acquitted himfelf very well of his fundlions as 

 'd^flave, and^ even gained the good graces of his 

 miilrefs fo much, tliat (he adopted him, and he 

 was then let at liberty, and looked upon as one 

 belonging to the nation. He foon learnt the 

 manner of converfing in pantomimes, and the 

 art of ufing the bow and arrows as well as they 

 could do it. They took him into the wars, 

 where he (lie wed them his dexterity, by killing 

 one of their enemies with an arrow in their pre- 

 fence, he was then acknowledged a true warrior. 

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