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manner, and exhibiting every fymptom of 
defpair. 
I was aftonlflied at their confternatlon, 
and could not conceive how men inured to 
fufFerings fhould be fo much afFeded by a few 
fmall pundures, the pain of which could 
have fcarcely drawn tears from an infant. They 
at length told me the caufe of their wailings. 
Thefe favages, accuftomed to poifon their ar- 
rows, imagined that I had in like manner 
poifoned the lead with which they were 
wounded. They had, therefore, given them- 
felves up as loft, and expedted in a few mo- 
ments to expire. 
It was with great difficulty I could caufe to 
be explained to them that they had nothing to 
fear. To convince them, in a manner ftilf 
more fatisfadlory, I pulled down one of my 
ftockings, and fhowcd them, in the flefli of 
my leg, a dozen fhots of lead, for which I was 
indebted to M. Papillon de la Ferte, who, 
when hunting in the plains of Gennevillier'^, 
had fired at me inftead of a rabbit. 
Klaas approached the wounded favages alfo ; 
and, without wafting time in words which 
they would not have underftood, took from 
his 
