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up our Night's Lodging at ; " wherefore we 

 made up a blazing Fire, that we might fit 

 down and reft us, for fleep we durft nor, 

 for fear of the Tigers. And now our Dog 

 proved of real Service to us; for nothing 

 could ftir, but he would bark and roar fu- 

 jioufly, which gave us Notice to Hand upon 

 our Defence, with Fire-brands in our Hands. 

 Thus, in fhort, we pafTed our Nights in 

 Watching and ceafelels Terror, and our Days 

 in Toil and unfpeakable Labour, and equal 

 Hazard ; and thus we went on from Moun- 

 tain to Mountain, till we had palTed the 

 whole Chain of them ; but many times, by 

 fuch Ways and Means, as might feem in- 

 credible, if related, at leaft, to Europeans, 

 for no European ever travelled this Country 

 before us, in the Manner that we did. Some- 

 times, we were obliged to afcend and de- 

 fcend the Mountains by Roads or Paths, 

 which were little more than mere Edges of 

 Land, with fuch prodigious Precipices on 

 each Side, that the leaft Slip or Turn of our 

 Feet, would have carried us where we 

 ftiould never more have been feen, and very 

 often Mules with their Burthens, if the 

 Ground proves flippery, are loft this Way, 



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