142 IN THE LAND OF THE BOEA. 



they had played me the same trick before, 

 though not with the same serious consequences. 

 Secondly, it points to the necessity for caution, 

 generally speaking, among these hills, as an 

 accident, especially to any one shooting alone, 

 as I usually did, may easily he attended with 

 serious consequences. I can only look upon my 

 escape, after falling from such a height, and with 

 a loaded and cocked gun, as most providential. 



