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on our flioiildeis, v.hile flie raifed her legs otle" 

 after the other, in order to bedecked with this 

 new o-arment. Wifhinej to avoid all Caufe of 

 rnifimderlianding, ^re preferved, on this oc- 

 caiion, as much gravity as we polTibly could. 



Thefe favages were forty-two in number: 

 fcveii of them were full-grown men, and eight 

 were women ; the others appeared to be theif 

 children, among whom we remarked feveral 

 girls arrived at the age of puberty, and flill lefs 

 clothed than moft of the mothers. We invited 

 them all to come and reft themfelves by our 

 fire; as fooi as we had reached it, one of thefe 

 favages exprcifed to us, by unequivocal figns^ 

 that he had come to reconnoitre us during the 

 night: in order to make us comprehend that 

 he had {ccn us aOcep, he put his right hand on 

 one fide of his head, which he inclined, at the 

 fame- time ihutting his eyes to exprefs fleep ; 

 with the other hand he fhewed us the place 

 where we ha] palTed the night. He then indi- 

 cated to us, by other figns no lefs expreiTive> 

 that he had a.l the time kept on the other lidc of 

 the rivulcr, whence he had watched us. In 

 fad:, one of is had been awaked about the niid- 

 dle of the ni^ht by a ruffling noife among tlic 

 branches ; ht had even fancied, that he had 

 heard feme cf them breaking; but, over- 

 come by fa^ijuc, he had fallen afiecp again: 



befides. 



