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wound ; they then forced the animal to rife, and drove 

 it on before them, to furnhh them with a fuller meal when 

 they fhould meet their companions in the evening. 



I could not but admire a dinner fo truly foldier-like, 

 nor did I ever fee fo commodious a manner of carrying 

 provifions along on the road as this was. I naturally attribu- 

 ted this to neceflity, and the love of expedition. It was a li- 

 berty, to be fure, taken with Chriftianity ; but what tranfgref- 

 fion is not warranted to a foldier when diftreffed by his ene- 

 my in the field ? I could not as yet conceive that this was 

 the ordinary banquet of citizens, and even of priefts, 

 throughout all this country. In the hofpitable, humane 

 houfe of Janni, thefe living feafts had never appeared. It 

 is true we had feen raw meat, but no part of an animal torn 

 from it with. the blood. The firft mocked us as uncom- 

 mon, but the other as impious. 



When firft I mentioned this in England, as one of the 

 Angularities which prevailed in this barbarous country, I 

 was told by my friends it was not believed. I afked the 

 reafon of this difbelief, and was anfwered, that people who 

 had never been out of their own country, and others well ac- 

 quainted with the manners of the world,for they had travelled 

 as far as France, had agreed the thing was impofiible, and 

 therefore it was fo. My friends counfelled me further, that 

 as thefe men were infallible, and had each the leading of a 

 circle, I mould by all means obliterate this from my jour- 

 nal, and not attempt to inculcate in the minds of my read- 

 ers the belief of a thing that men who had travelled pro- 

 nounced to be impofiible. They fuggefted to me, in the 

 moll friendly manner, how rudely a very learned and wor- 



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