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with nine gnns from each ; which having returned with chap. 

 three cheers, we fet fail for the place above mentioned. X^'^- 

 As we palfed in the lighters through the inland towns, 

 fuch as Saardajn, Haerkm, and l^ergow, I thought them 

 truly magnificent, particularly the glafs painting in the 

 great church of the latter; but their inhabitants, who 

 crouded about us, from curiofity to fee us, appeared but a 

 difgufting, alTemblage of ill-formed and ill-dreffed rab- 

 ble, fo much had my prejudices been changed by living 

 among the Indians and blacks : their eyes feemed to re- 

 femble thofe of a pig; their complexions were like the 

 colour of foul linen ; they feemed to have no teeth, and 

 to be covered over with rags and dirt. This prejudice, 

 however, was not againfl thefe people only, but againft all 

 Europeans in general, when compared to the Iparkling 

 eyes, ivory ^teeth, fliining Ikin, and remarkable cleanli- 

 nefs of thofe I had left behind me. But the mofb ludi- 

 crous circumftance was, that during all this we never 

 once conlidered ^the truly extraordinary figure that we 

 made ourfelves, being fo much fun-burnt and fo pale, 

 that we v/ere nearly the colour of dried parchment, by 

 heat and fatigue; and fo thin, that we looked like moving 

 fkeletons ; to which I may add, tliat having lived fo long 

 in the woods, we had pcrfedtly the appearance of vvild 

 people ; and I in particular, very defervedly, obtained the 

 chara6leriftic title of le Sauvage Attgiois, or the Englifli 

 favage. . 



In this ftate v/e arrived, on the gtjh, at the town 

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