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I doubt much whether this alFiftance was 
fufRcient to relieve him : unfortunately my 
IkiU extended no farther ; and, being firmly 
perfuaded that his death was inevitable, I 
thought that to haften it would be the 
greateft fervice that could be done to him. 
If I have prolonged his miferable exiflence 
for a few davs, the cruelleft of his enemies 
could not have done more. 
When I returned to the habitation of 
Haabas, his wife prefented me with fome 
milk to refrefh me j and I found that a fheep 
had been killed to entertain me and my 
people. 
I ordered a few fteaks to be broiled on 
fome coals before the hut ; but the remem- 
brance of the horrid fpedtacle which I had 
f^en fo haunted my imagination, that it en- 
tirely deprived me of my appetite. Fearing 
however that thefe favages might think I 
was dlfgufted with their food, which would 
have cruelly mortified them, I forced my- 
felf to eat a little. From the place where 
I fat, through the circle that furrounded me, 
I faw my people, who were lefs delicate 
than their mafter, regaling themfelves on 
pieces which had been diftributed among 
them, 
