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took away all the water and camels, and left the Tucorcr^r 

 to die with third. You allced me when I faw him after his 

 leaving Chendi ? I tell you it was at a ftation of the Bifha- 

 reen, two hours before you come to Umarack ; his body- 

 lay upon the fand v/ithered and dried, but not corrupted ;■ 

 his hough- of the right leg, and back-fmew^ of tlie left, 

 jull above the heel, were cut afunder by a fword. The 

 wounds through his body were apparent. The lance^ 

 I apprehend, had feme crooks below the head of it, as is 

 their cuftom, becaufe a confiderabie quantity of his bowels 

 were drawn out at the back. He had two ■ wounds upon 

 his head, which I fuppofe were given him after he was 

 dead, for they had cut through the fkull entirely, and any 

 one of them would have been mortal in a moment. Ifmaei 

 and the Barbarin threw fand over him.. For my part, I 

 paid no fort of refpe(5t to the carcafe of a man, who, wherr 

 living, had fliewed fo little for my. prefervation. We 

 ■went to the right, and followed fome footfleps ;. we faw 

 three men dead, all big and corpulent ; they were allthruft 

 through with three lances ; each of them had his throat cutj 

 and one his jaw. broken, . 



" All the next day the road was ftrewed with the bo- 

 dies of the Tucorory, and the day after, at nine o'clock in 

 the morning, we found his horfe dead ; the day following' 

 •we found dead bodies of people, who had perilhed with thirft, 

 fcattered here and there like the tracft of a purfuit after a 

 "battle ; their dry bottles, made of gourdsj were grafped in 

 .heir hands, and fomcheld them to their mouths as if fucking 

 chcm. God, as I fay, puniflied this man, by allowing his' 

 pride and prefumption to blind him ; for, had we joined 

 Qi\r. companies, there could not have been a better place.' 



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