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feight 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 



