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pened on the road, which had like to have 
done much mifchief, or even coft me my 
Hie. 
One of my oxen was laden with the boxes 
which coniaiaed the articles of traffic : and 
one ot thefe boxes, probably not well lafteiied, 
made fucii a none by its fhaking that the ani- 
mal became reltlefs. Teaied by the continual 
clacking of the box, he made an eiFort to lhake 
it off, and at lafl fucceeded ; but the others, 
loofened and dragged down by it in its fall, 
fell likevvife, and made fuch a clatter, that the 
ox and ah that w^ere near him, being terrified, 
betook themfelves to flight. 
The alarm communicated itfelf to the reft, 
and all my animals, goats, fheep, and horfes, 
tampered off each a different way. In a mo- 
ment the whole caravan was in confufion, and 
the drivers themfelves, dragged along by their 
beafls, w^hich they could not flop, were dif- 
perfed with them. 
The mofl diftant of the fugitives w^as the 
pack-ox that fii:ft took flight; but, hampered 
in his courfe by the ffraps of his baggage, and 
not being able to difengage himfelf from them, 
he had flopped, and was plunging and bellow- 
