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which, by Its explofion, would have blown me 
up along with It. 
My terror on account of this double danger 
continued more than an hour. The thunder 
having at length ceafed, though the rain ftill 
continued, each of us putting his head out from 
below his covering eagerly turned round his 
eyes to fearch for his neighbour ; and, furprifed 
to find the whole company alive, we congratu- 
lated each other on having efcaped fo Imminent 
a peril. 
My Kaboblqua guides alone feemed to be 
delighted with the ftorm. Accuftomed, as 
they faid, to experience fimllar and even more 
violent ones, they had, in general, their noife 
only without ^their advantage ; but by this 
their wells would be filled vvith water, and 
freCb pailure would fpring up for their cattle. 
They confidered it, therefore, as a bleffing ; 
and fo great was their joy, that they had fat 
all the while quietly expofed to the rain, with- 
out attempting In the fmallefl degree to Ihel- 
ter themfelves from It. 
All our cattle, fheep, oxen, and goats, du- 
ring the ftorm, had difperfed themfelves in 
different quarters over the plain. Having col- 
li 4 ' kaed 
