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rude a blow with the tent-pole upon his head, that it fell- 

 ed him to the ground ; others, with pikes, put an end to his 

 life. 



We were then obliged to turn our cares towards the wound- 

 ed. Yafine's wound was foon feen to be a trifle ; befides, he was 

 a man not eafily alarmed on fuch occafions. But the poor afs 

 ■was not fo eafily comforted. The flump remained, the tail 

 hanging by a piece of it, which we were obliged to cut off. 

 The next operation was actual cautery ; but, as we had 

 made no bread for breakfafl, our fire had been early out. We, 

 therefore, were obliged to tie the flump round with whip- 

 cord, till we could get fire enough to heat an iron. 



What fufnciently marked the voracity of thefe beafls, the 

 hyenas, was, that the bodies of their dead companions, which 

 we hauled a long way from us, and left there, were almofl en- 

 tirely eaten by the furvivors the next morning ; and I then 

 obferved, for the firfl time, that the hysena of this country 

 was a different fpecies from thofe I had feen in Europe, 

 which had been brought from Ana or America. 



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