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took away all the water and camels, and left the Tucorory 
to die with thirft. You afked me when I faw him after his 
leaving Chendi? Ite you it was at a ftation of the Bifha- 
.- reen, two hours before you come to Umarack ; his body - 
lay upon the fand withered and:dried, but not corrupted ; 
his hough of the right leg, and back-finew of the left, 
jult abfre the heel, were cut afunder by a fword. The 
wounds through his body were apparent. The lanee, 
I apprehend, had fome crooks below the head of it, as is 
toeir cuftom, becaufe a confiderable quantity of his bowels 
were drawn out at the back. He had two. wounds upon 
his head, which I fuppofe were given him after he was 
dead, for they had cut through the: fkull entirely, and: any 
one of them would have been morral ina:moment.. Hmael 
and: the Barbarin threw fand over him. For my part, I 
paid no fort of refpect to the carcafe of a man, who, when 
living, had fhewed fo little for my. prefervation. We. 
went to the right, and followed fome footfteps; we faw 
three men dead, all big and,corpulent ; they were all thruft. . 
through with three lances ; each of them had his throat cus, 
and one his jaw broken,. 
“ Arr the next day the road: was ftrewed' with the bo- 
dies of the Tucorory, and the day after, at nine.o’clock in 
the morning, we found his horfe dead ;. the: day following 
we found dead bodies of people, who had perifhed-with thirft,. 
fcatrered here and there like the tract of a purfuit after a- 
battle; their dry bottles, made of gourds, were grafped in. 
their hands, and fomeheld them to their mouths as if fucking, 
them.. God, as I fay, punifhed this man, by allowing his 
pride and prefumpuon to blind him; for, had we joined. 
enr companies, there could not. have been a. better place: 
ve _ imagined: 
