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without daring to peep out, during which the sick Persons 

 suffer'd exceedingly. The hard-hearted Governor^ neverthe- 

 less had no Pity upon them ; on the contrary, two days after 

 they had undergone these Torments, he had the Inhumanity 

 to order, without any Eeason or Pretence, that the two 

 accus'd Persons should be chain'd together, notwithstanding 

 they were already in Irons, and so weak, thro' Sickness^ that 

 they could hardly stir. 



Over and above a Bloody-Flux, which one had been tor- 

 mented with above a year, he had likewise a lingering Con- 

 sumption. 'Tis true, they were not bound above ten Days, 

 but then they were still continu'd in their first Irons ; and the 

 sickest of them was conducted a-shoar and put in the Stomhs 

 in Prison. Fifteen days after, the Tyrant who sported with 

 us just as a Cat does with a ISIouse, order'd him to the Rock 

 again, whatever the Surgeon could say to the contrary ; and 

 made me be carry'd along with him, without suffering me to 

 see or speak with him. Altho' I was pretty well recover'd, 

 I was soon overtaken with my Bloody-Flux, and whatever 

 Instances I could make to come a-shoar again were rejected. 

 This Busiris" would needs Murther us with a slow Fire, not 

 daring to do it all at once. 



1 In orig.: " avec son coeur cle Pharnoti,^'' omitted by translator. 



2 Bnsirist, the son of Neptune and King of Egypt, wlio sacrificed his 

 guest Thrasins, who had prophesied that tlie inundation of the Nile 

 would take place only by human sacrifice. This experiment was also 

 about to be tried on Hercules, but the hero slew the tyrant. Ovid fre- 

 quently alludes to him, and, considering Leguat's aversion to Latin 

 verses, this classical quotation would seem to belong to Misson. 



" Ssevior es tristi Busiride : sjevior illo, 

 Qui falsum lento torruit igne bovem." 



(Ocidii N'asonis Triatium, lib. iii, 39.) 

 " Si te vidisset cultu Busiris in isto ; 

 Iluic victor victo nenipe pudendus eras." 



[Epistolie Heroldum, ix ; Deianara IlercuU, 69.) 

 " Ergo ego foedantem peregrine templa cruore 

 Busirin donuii?" 



(Met((!n'jrjiho.''(iu lib. ix, 182.) 



