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influence of some spell. It is not sufficiently mas- 
ter of the situation to be sensible to fear, or to 
think of escape by flight; and the experiment, to 
be successful, must be done quickly, before the first 
feeling of bewilderment passes. 
Witnessing the spectacle from the shore, I can 
conceive of nothing more sudden or astounding. 
You see no movement and hear no noise, but the 
light grows upon you, and stares and stares like a 
huge eye from the infernal regions. 
According to the guide, when a deer has been 
played upon in this manner and escaped, he is not 
to be fooled a second time. Mounting the shore, 
he gives a long signal snort, which alarms every 
animal within hearing, and dashes away. 
The sequel to the deer-shooting was a little sharp 
practice with a revolver upon a rabbit, or properly 
a hare, which was so taken with the spectacle of 
the camp-fire, and the sleeping figures lying about, 
that it ventured quite up in our midst; but while 
testing the quality of some condensed milk that sat 
uncovered at the foot of a large tree, poor Lepus 
had his spine injured by a bullet. 
Those who lodge with Nature find early rising 
quite in order. It is our voluptuous beds, and iso- 
‘lation from the earth and the air, that prevents us 
from emulating the birds and beasts in this respect. 
With the citizen in his chamber, it is not morning, 
but breakfast-time. The camper-out, however, feels 
morning in the air, he smells it, sees it, hears it, 
