f26o TRAVELS IN 
wind, and begin to run, with all my dogs 
after him, none of which made the leaft 
noife. Aftonifhed at this new fpeftacle, and 
perceiving nothing that could particularly 
attrad: them, I made hafte to come up with 
them ; but what was my furprife when 
I found them all coUefted around a beautiful 
fpring, at the diftance of three hundred paces 
from the place whence they had fet out! 
Upon this dlfcovery, having made a fign to 
my people with my hand to approach, they 
inftantly obeyed, and we encamped clofe to 
this beneficent fpring, which immediately 
affum.ed the name of the magician that dil^ 
covered it. 
I ihall more than once have occafion to 
recoiled: clrcumfrances in which I received 
fignal fervices from the animals I had along 
with me; and on this occafion they freed 
me from a dreadful afflidlion, under which I 
muft have funk without their afliftance, I 
never doubted that man received from his 
Creator the fame faculties in an equal pro- 
portion, but his corruption has infenfibly de- 
prived him of them all. The favages ap- 
proaching nearer to nature In proportion as 
they are removed from us, have likewlfe 
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