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THE WORLD'S WONDERS. 



faint suspicion came to my mind that this was all but a part of a 

 hideous dream. "Why was it that I should be haunted with the 

 idea that there were human beings who regarded me and my 

 friends only in the light of meat? Meat ! We ? Heavens ! what 

 an atrocious idea. 



"There was a fat-bodied wretch in a canoe, whom I allowed 

 to'crawl within spear-throw of me; who, while he swayed tin- 

 spear with a vigor fur from assuring to one who stood within 

 reach of it, leered with such a clever hideousness of feature that 

 J felt, if only within arm's length of him, I could have bestowed 

 upon him a hearty thump on the back, and cried out applaud- 



