A YOUNG NATURALIST. 



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the sight of this fire. The air was cool ; still I'Encuerado was 

 not allowed to kindle a light, which would perhaps have betraj'ed 

 us to foes. It was now twenty days since we had met with a 

 human being, and our first feeling, after the instinctive joy at the 

 idea of seeing our fellow-creatures, was, alas ! one of distrust. 



