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eight or ten feet high, the more we were en- 

 veloped in those whirlwinds of dust, caused by 

 the little currents of air that sweep the ground. 

 About four o'clock in the afternoon we found a 

 young Indian girl stretched upon the savannah. 

 She was quite naked, lay upon her back, and 

 appeared to be only twelve or thirteen years of 

 age. Exhausted with fatigue and thirst, her 

 eyes, nostrils, and mouth filled with dust, she 

 breathed with a rattling in her throat, and was 

 unable to answer our questions. A pitcher over- 

 turned, and half filled with sand, was lying at 

 her side. Happily one of our mules was laden 

 with water ; and we roused the young girl from 

 her lethargic state by washing her face, and 

 forcing her to drink a few drops of wine. She 

 was at first frightened at seeing herself sur- 

 rounded by so many persons ; but by degrees 

 she took courage, and conversed with our guides. 

 She judged from the position of the Sun, that 

 she must have remained during several hours 

 in that state of lethargy. We could not pre- 

 vail on her to mount one of our beasts of 

 burden. She would not return to Uritucu. 

 She had been in service at a neighbouring farm ; 

 and her masters had discharged her, because at 

 the end of a long sickness they found she was 

 less able to work than before. Our menaces and 

 our prayers were fruitless ; insensible to suffer- 

 ing, like the rest of her race, she persisted in 



