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up with smiles at my recapture, and de- 

 lighted at being- in time to witness my 

 execution, for it appeared that he had just 

 arrived from his own village, from whence 

 he had been summoned. It seemed with 

 all our hard walking that we had only got 

 away about twenty, or five and twenty 

 miles from the village out of which we 

 had escaped ; walking in a thick jungle is 

 so deceiving that you may fancy you 

 have gone treble the distance really tra- 

 versed. 



The examination proceeded, and every- 

 thing seemed to go against us. It ap- 

 peared, from the evidence, that I had 

 invaded their country, gone about killing 

 the inhabitants and burning their villages; 

 and, after doing all this damage, I had not 

 had the common politeness to remain with 

 them till I was executed ! They all rose 



