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dlately began to cut from It fuch pieces as they 
liked. In lefs than an hour, each had his 
load ; nor did the carcafe appear to be in the 
leaft diminiflied ; but they propofed to return 
to it the next and following days with all their 
companions, in order to cut it up completely. 
I had refolved to return along with them, 
in hopes that this immenfe body might attract 
fome birds of prey, v\^hich I fhould be able to 
procure without much difficulty ; but, v/hen I 
was preparing to depart, my attention was at- 
tracted by melodious ftralns, fuch as I had 
never heard, w^hich proceeded from all parts of 
the banks of the river. I advanced, therefore, 
under the trees, and adually difcovered a num- 
ber of birds, with v^hich I had till that mo- 
ment been unacquainted. By thus pafling 
fuddenly from the hunting of quadrupeds to 
the purfuit of birds, I gave fome reft to my 
imagination fatigued with carnage ; and I faw* 
diminiflied, in the proportion of the objedts, 
that natural horror and difguft which it often 
excited. Frequently I turned my eyes upon 
th-e verdure and the flowers ; and if any por- 
tion of difguft, infeparable from a wandering 
gnd folitary exiftence, happened to furprife 
' me 
