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eeeding with them is firft to gam theu* love* 
Eutertalnuig fuch principles, it may readily be 
judged that I do not beheve in eaters of men ; 
and that there is no country fodefart, or fo little 
known, intowhichi would not penetrate with- 
out fear and without apprehenfion. Sufpicioii 
is the principal caufe of the barbarity of fa- 
vages, if we can call fo the great care which 
they employ to remove from us, and even 
to deftroy every thing that feems likely to 
endanger our fafety or interrupt our repofe. 
Not being able to fleep during the whole 
night, I arofe at break of day : but what 
was my aftonifliment when I perceived Na- 
rina ! She feemed to have a more embar-* 
raffed air, and a more bafhful look, than 
ordinary ; and it was then only^ as I have 
already faid, that flie confeffed ihe had ar- 
rived the evening before* I reproached her 
in the fevereft terms for having thus con- 
cealed herfelf from me, and I begged her to 
tell me the reafon ; but, not withftan ding all 
I could fay, (he gave me no pofitive anfwer. 
Her filence in this refped: was carried even 
to obftlnacy. At length, as if afraid that 
flie had railed her hopes too high, fhe be- 
came more timid in proportion as fhe guefled 
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